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Youth homelessness has increased by 82% over the last four years. The most recent figures show that there were 869 young people aged 18-24 accessing...

Temple Street Children’s Hospital recently released figures which highlighted the increased numbers of children being discharged from the hospital to ‘no fixed abode’. In this...

In 2018 some 1,600 people were removed from the official homelessness figures following a reclassification exercise. In this blog post, Research & Policy Analyst Wayne...

In this blog post, Dr Mary Murphy from the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University explores how policy makers rationalise lone parent’s ambitions for employment and...

As homelessness increases across Europe, so too do efforts by Governments to penalise and criminalise those experiencing it. Focus Ireland Policy Officer Alison Connolly takes...

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...