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Focus Ireland provides case management support across a number of services. But what is case management, and how successful is it in supporting households to...

Pictured left to right: Ger Spillane, Mid & South West Services Manager; Cllr Mick Finn, Lord Mayor of Cork; Philip Gillivan, President of Cork Business...

In recent days Irish Times reported a “revisited” plan within Dublin City Council to accommodate homeless people on a rented cruise ship. While this current...

Our Founder and Life President Sr Stan Kennedy was invited to speak at a Sinn Fein event in Dublin on September 17, which reviewed the...

Focus Ireland Director of Advocacy Mike Allen writes about the challenge facing Eoghan Murphy, and how the Minister needs to set a trajectory that can...

Rough sleeping is the most visible form of homelessness and of society failing the most vulnerable. In this blog post, we compare the strategies of...

With school starting up soon after the summer break, and rising numbers of children living in emergency accommodation, we take a look at how homelessness...

Focus Ireland Director of Advocacy Mike Allen writes that the mistakes made in the 70’s and 80’s when it came to the provision of social...

Focus Ireland Research Officer Sarah Sheridan explores the statistics which show clearly that homelessness is a crisis caused by a broken housing system, and not...

Niamh Cassidy is Team Leader, Long Term & Supported Temporary Accommodation, Dublin and gives her insight into her work, and that of Focus Ireland.  read...