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.

15/01/2018

Focus Ireland Welcomes Govt. Social Housing Report But Calls For Greater Transparency and Says Only New Tenancies Should Be Counted

Focus Ireland welcomed Minister Murphy’s announcement today that just under 26,000 households got new social housing last year compared to the government target of 21,050 units. The breakdown shows that nearly...

28/12/2017

Focus Ireland announces it delivered 145 Homes This Year As it Reports On Progress of New 31 Bed Development in Dublin City Centre

Focus Ireland announced today that it has added 145 units to its housing stock this year as it commits to doubling the number of homes provide over the next five years. These...

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...