Get your finances ready for the new normal

Climate change, Brexit, an ageing population and much more will challenge all of us over the coming decades. Are you getting your finances ready for it? And if not, why not?

Irish children protesting in Dublin last month: climate change is only one of the many challenges the younger generation will face in the coming yearsGetty

The government would like to know what you and I think about the risks we face, and not just our usual worries about unemployment, housing and physical and mental health.

It also wants our views about everything else that could go wrong, from Brexit and biodiversity to global competitiveness and pandemics. It wants to know if we’re concerned about the risk that terrorism and other conflicts pose to our lives in Ireland, as ...