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.

22/08/2017

Focus Ireland Comment On New Daft Report That Shows Rents Rocketing As Supply Plummets

Focus Ireland warned that the nearly 3,000 children who are homeless are becoming the invisible victims of the rental crisis as many have been forced into homelessness due to rising rents or...

10/08/2017

Focus Ireland welcomes publication of the ‘Homeless Persons in Ireland’ Census results

The housing and homeless charity said that the most shocking single finding in this report is that children aged between the ages of 0-4 are now the largest single age group experiencing...

09/08/2017

Homelessness Has Negative Impact on Nutrition of Children

Focus Ireland welcomed a new independent research report on the difficulties faced by families that are homeless in accessing healthy food and having normal family meals. The report, which was jointly funded...

04/08/2017

New Government homeless figures for June show that the situation is ‘worse than ever before under every single category, and getting worse”

As the latest official homeless figures show a yet another record level of homelessness, Focus Ireland called for urgent action to end evictions from private rented accommodation and to speed up access...

30/07/2017

Focus Ireland set to Mark 10 Years of Challenging Homelessness and Changing Lives in Cork

Focus Ireland are marking ten years of challenging homelessness and changing lives in Cork through its work providing services and housing in the country since 2007. A decade on and Focus Ireland...

30/06/2017

Focus Ireland Renews Call for Urgent Government Action

Following on from today’s DAFT.ie report which suggests that the Rent Pressure Zones are making things worse, not better, Focus Ireland is renewing its call for urgent government action to ease the...