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outside the home. They are at greater risk of mental and emotional difficulties, more likely to be bullied and more prone to experiencing food poverty. Caring is also a risk factor for children and young people's mental health and well-being. This is often little understood

poor is that nearly half the British Army was recruited from Ireland at that stage. That was the scale of the poverty. People had no choice as there was no money. While everybody who went to school here, and many around the world, will know of the Famine … that period but before and after that famine. The only recourse people had in many cases was to attack the stores of food the landlords and their agents held. That was a way to try to get food and distribute it among people. People were also being driven

date from between 1821 and 1861 and point to decades in Irish life that were cruel, grim, violent and rife with starvation and poverty. More than 2,500 of these proclamations offer rewards for culprits of long-forgotten crimes. Unless those culprits have almost two centuries of living … took place. As you read through the laws being deleted by this Bill, you get a window into the past - a past where food was so precious that breaking eggs amounted to a high crime and where people took a beating with nettles for the sake