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# poverty line

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Stark rise in deprivation as more people struggle to heat homes and face utility bill arrears
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
Almost one in six Irish households is jobless
Meet the former accountant who dumpster dives and lives in New York City on $5,000 a year
Three quarters of people with spinal injuries in Ireland are unemployed