In little more than a generation, Ireland moved from being one of the poorest countries in Europe, to a haven for tech giants and financiers, to a land riven by housing shortages and massive inequality. How did we get here, and how do we cope? Commentators Santis O’Garro & Katriona O’Sullivan analyse some of the biggest questions in Ireland today.

In 2018, Santis O’Garro was in €15k of debt, managed to pay it off in a year, and in doing so pursued her new career as a life coach. Her book, The Money Mentor, gives practical advice on solving your saving woes. Katriona O’Sullivan likewise focuses on the practical support we can give to children, through her work as a lecturer at Maynooth University and her book, Poor, a memoir of surviving a childhood and adolescence in dire poverty.

O’Garro and O’Sullivan will be in conversation with author and journalist Caelainn Hogan.

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Santis O’Garro qualified as a life coach in 2021 and has helped thousands of people in Ireland (and beyond) to budget their money and change and elevate their mindset regarding their finances.

Dr Katriona O’Sullivan works as a senior lecturer in Digital Skills in Maynooth University’s Department of Psychology. Most recently, the programme she leads to improve working class girls’ access to education in STEM subjects won the Most Impactful Initiative award at the Women in Tech Europe Awards in Amsterdam.