Does the cost of living crisis affect children's mental health? RTE Brainstorm

Description

Analysis: Children experience economic downturns through household stress, tension and anxiety rather than GDP figures or interest rates

Subject

I don't remember inflation rates from the 1980s. I don't remember discussions about unemployment, interest rates or fiscal policy. I don't remember being told by Charlie Haughey that we were living "way beyond our means".

But I do remember car journeys been limited because petrol had become too expensive, relatives emigrating to Canada in search of work and my parents keeping a watchful eye on the weekly grocery bill. Like many Irish children growing up during periods of economic uncertainty, I experienced the 1980s economy indirectly through the adults around me.