Press Releases

Press Releases

Focus Ireland Press Releases provide the very latest information issued to media outlets.
Our most up-to-date releases in relation to homelessness and housing can be viewed below.

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Focus Ireland Launches Urgent Christmas Appeal As It Reports Helping More Than 350 Families To Escape Homelessness This Year

Focus Ireland launched an urgent Christmas appeal today with a hard-hitting campaign that highlights nearly 4,000 children are homeless nationwide. The charity’s Life President Sr. Stan launched the campaign which appeals to people to...

NEW FOCUS IRELAND REPORT FINDS 95% OF PEOPLE IT SUCCESSFULLY SUPPORTED IN 2017 WERE STILL IN THEIR HOMES SIX MONTHS AFTER DISENGAGING FROM THE CHARITY’S SERVICES

Focus Ireland launched a new study today which reports that 95% of the people it successfully supported last year were still in their homes six months after disengaging from the charity’s services....

NORAH CASEY TEAMS UP WITH FOCUS IRELAND TO LAUNCH HARD-HITTING NEW VIDEO WHICH SHOWS THE TERRIBLE HUMAN IMPACT OF THE FAMILY HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

Business woman Norah has written to many well-known people across all sectors asking for them to share the video & call for action to end the crisis Norah Casey has teamed up...

FOCUS SAYS GOVERNMENT MUST ACT NOW TO PROTECT THE CHILDHOODS OF NEARLY 4,000 CHILDREN AS NEW FIGURES REPORT THAT 9,698 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS

Focus Ireland said it believes that new figures published today reporting a total of 9,698 people homeless shows there will be no end to the crisis without a shift of policy by...

Business Leaders Take Part In Focus Ireland Shine a Light Night 2018 & Raise €1M To Help Charity’s Work

Over 130 business leaders took part in Focus Ireland’s Shine A Light Night (Fri Oct 12) to raise €1m to help fund the charity’s vital services to combat and prevent homelessness. The...

Focus Ireland Welcomes €2.3Billion Housing Budget Allocation, But Stresses That This Budget Is Not The Game Changer That People who are homeless Needed

The charity said that while we welcome the increased allocation towards housing in Budget 2019 the reality is, it is not enough. Despite the last three budgets being mooted as ‘Housing’ budgets, they...

Focus Ireland Pre-Budget Submission Calls For Action to Fast-Track – & Increase – Delivery of Social Housing to Tackle Homelessness Crisis

Focus Ireland launched its Pre-Budget Submission today (Sunday Oct 7th)  which calls for action in next week’s Budget to fast-track delivery of social housing to help ease the homelessness crisis. The charity...

FOCUS IRELAND CALLS ON GOVT TO END CONFUSION AROUND THE HOMELESS NUMBERS AND TAKE FIRM ACTION IN THE BUDGET TO HELP END HOMELESS CRISIS

Focus Ireland called on the Government to clear up the latest confusion around the official number of people who are homeless as new figures issued today report that an unspecified ‘recategorisation’  there...

FOCUS IRELAND REPORTS IT HAS SUPPORTED 5% MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR AT RISK SO FAR THIS YEAR

The Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr. Mick Finn officially opened Focus Ireland’s 12th Annual national conference in Cork City Hall today (Friday Sept 14th) which brought together experts and front-line staff to...

We are driven by the fundamental belief that homelessness is wrong. Wrong because it is a failure of society that creates victims out of ordinary people and robs them of their potential. Wrong because it can be prevented, it can be solved but is allowed to continue and in doing so, undermines society.

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