Monthly Archives: July 2018

Travelling from the Western Region to work in Dublin. How has it changed and Why?

Posted on July 30, 2018 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) recently published a report on Travel to Work patterns in the Western Region. Travel to Work and Labour Catchments in the Western Region, A Profile of Seven Town Labour Catchments (2018) is available for download here. The report draws … Continue reading →

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A Snapshot of the Western Region – WDC publishes a series of county infographics

Posted on July 24, 2018 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published a series of eight infographics showing of key statistics for the Western Region and each of its seven counties.  The data is from the CSO’s Census of Population in 2016 with analysis … Continue reading →

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Creating Stronger Rural Economies and Communities- A Forum

Posted on July 18, 2018 by WDC Insights

The Rural and Regional strand of Project Ireland 2040 was launched in Westport last Friday (13 July 2018) at a Forum held in the Town Hall Theatre.  The focus was on the National Strategic Outcome 3 in Project Ireland 2040 … Continue reading →

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Understanding Changes in the Components of County Incomes

Posted on July 11, 2018 by WDC Insights

While my previous post on county incomes (based on the CSO’s publications County Incomes and Regional GDP, 2015) considered the changes in Disposable Income over time, in this post I look at the components of Disposable Income, some of the … Continue reading →

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Nuts about NUTS!

Posted on July 3, 2018 by WDC Insights

Anyone not familiar with regional policy or regional statistics always gets a bit of a laugh when we start talking about NUTS. It actually stands for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) and this system of defining territorial units … Continue reading →

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