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 & INTO Launch New Education Resource for Primary Schools

Focus Ireland and the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) have produced a new guidance resource for primary school teachers and principals who are supporting students and families who are homeless or at...

Focus Ireland Annual Report Shows it Helped Record Number of over 15,500 people in 2018

Focus Ireland supported a record number of over 15,500 people last year who were homeless or at risk – the charity announced at its Annual Report 2018 launch in Dublin. This is...

FOCUS IRELAND LAUNCHES HARD-HITTING CAMPAIGN CALLING FOR ACTION AS THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN HOMELESS HAS SHOT UP BY 356% IN 5 YEARS

Focus Ireland has launched a new hard-hitting campaign to highlight the trauma that the deepening homelessness crisis is causing to nearly 4,000 children in Ireland. The emotive campaign projects images of children...

FOCUS IRELAND CALLS FOR MORE GOVERNMENT ACTION TO AS NEW FIGURES REPORT 10,275 PEOPLE HOMELESS

New Focus Ireland figures show number of families who became homeless in Dublin rocketed by 70% over one month (as 124 families became homeless in July compared to 73 in June). Focus...

FOCUS IRELAND CALLS FOR MORE ACTION BY THE GOVERNMENT TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS AS NEW FIGURES REPORT 10,172 PEOPLE HOMELESS

Charity warns that homelessness is not just a Dublin problem as there are nearly 1,000 children homeless outside of the capital Focus Ireland has today called for the Government to urgently review...

Focus Ireland Calls on Govt. to Deliver Tailored Strategies to Tackle Youth & Family Homelessness as New Figures Show a Total of 10,253 Homeless

As official homeless figures reach 10,253, Focus Ireland have today called for the Government to urgently put in place two specific strategies to tackle the deepening dual problems of  youth & family homelessness. The...

Focus Ireland calls for cross-party political commitment to establish ‘Housing Commission’ after next election

Focus Ireland today called on all political parties to commit to establishing a ‘Commission on Housing’ after the next election, to work out a broad consensus on the supply of affordable, secure...

FOCUS IRELAND REPORT FINDS THAT NEARLY 70% OF FAMILIES BECOMING HOMELESS IN DUBLIN HAD THEIR LAST HOME IN THE RENTAL SECTOR

Families living in the private rented sector are continuing to bear the brunt of the deepening housing and homeless crisis according to new research launched by Focus Ireland today (13th June) in...

Focus Ireland Presents to the Joint Committee on Children & Youth Affairs

Focus Ireland made a presentation to the Joint Committee on Children & Youth Affairs today and said it welcomed the opportunity to discuss the impact of the current crisis as the number...

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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