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EPISODE · Aug 31, 2026 · 8 MIN

What can be done to improve falling birth rates?

from The Hard Shoulder

Quality public childcare and dependable dads are key to boosting fertility rates, so writes John Fitzgerald, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in today's Irish Times.He joins Ciara to discuss.

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