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.

19/12/2017

Focus Ireland Says Govt Must Act Now To Bring In The So-Called Focus Ireland Amendment As The Number Homeless Rockets Yet Again

Focus Ireland said that the new record total of 8,857 (Nov 2017) people homeless in Ireland show the Government strategy is failing to tackle the deepening crisis. These latest figures mean that...

17/12/2017

Irish TV Star Angela Scanlon is Helping to Raise Funds for Focus Ireland This Christmas After Being Touched By the Crisis of Child Homelessness

— BBC Star moved to act as a record total of over 3000 children now homeless in Ireland — Irish TV star Angela Scanlon is helping to raise funds for Focus Ireland...

11/12/2017

FOCUS IRELAND ANNOUNCES IT HAS HELPED OVER 14,000 PEOPLE SO FAR THIS YEAR

Charity launches video campaign to show one of the very human stories behind these figures as part of its urgent Christmas appeal Focus Ireland announced today that it has supported over 14,000...

07/12/2017

Blathnaid Treacy Launches New Iarnród Éireann/Focus Ireland Campaign Which Aims to Help Get More People #Home4Christmas.

RTE television presenter Blathnaid Treacy took time out of her busy schedule today to launch the new – Iarnród Éireann supported – campaign at Focus Ireland’s offices in High Street to help raise vital funds for the charity...

07/12/2017

Focus Ireland Issues New Report & Announces it has prevented 240 families from becoming homeless in first 10 months of 2017

—–Charity also reports that it has helped over 700 families to secure a home and escape homelessness in the same period in partnership with the State- Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy TD...

22/11/2017

FOCUS IRELAND SAYS MORE HOMES ARE REQUIRED TO END HOMELESSNESS CRISIS NOT MORE EMERGENCY BEDS

———–Charity makes its call as new figures show 184 people sleeping rough in Dublin & a record total of 8,492 people homeless nationwide—— Focus Ireland warned today that two new sets...