One Family Client Christmas Party at Dublin Castle

What did you get? Santa along with his helper arrive early for Minister of State John Curran TD Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and Karen Kiernan (Director of One Family). They celebrated with May McCann from Antrim and Zach Brady from Dublin and other One Family clients at their Christmas Party in Dublin Castle.

What did you get? Santa along with his helper arrive early for Minister of State John Curran TD Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and Karen Kiernan (Director of One Family). They celebrated with May
McCann from Antrim and Zach Brady from Dublin and other One Family clients at their Christmas Party in Dublin Castle.

One-parent families faced with poverty

One Family , the leading provider of specialist support services for one-parent families in Ireland today expresses its concern that lone parents on welfare will face further cuts in their income as a result of Budget 2010. One-parent families are already experiencing four times the level of poverty found in the general population and the measures introduced today along with those introduced in the last two budgets will , in One Family’s view , increase this inequality. Read more

One Family Policy Manager Candy Murphy to speak at Press Conference Thursday 26 November

Invitation

‘1 million reasons to oppose cuts to Child Benefit’

Representing all elements of family life in Ireland today and jointly opposed to any cuts or changes to Child Benefit in Budget 2010; OPEN, One Family, PACUB, the Children’s Rights Alliance and the National Women’s Council of Ireland invite you to a joint Press Conference on Thursday 26th November, 2009.

Speakers:

Frances Byrne, Director, OPEN
Candy Murphy, Policy & Campaigns Manager, One Family
Treasa Dovander, Founder, Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget (PACUB)
Maria Corbett, Policy Director, Children’s Rights Alliance
Orla O’Connor, Head of Policy, National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) Read more

Club di Dublino Annual Dinner

H.E. Italian Ambassador Mr. Valerio Augusto Astraldi, Senator David Norris, Mr. Aldo Aletti, President, Club di Dublino and Ms. Karen Kiernan, Director, One Family. Picture:  Finbarr  O'Rourke

H.E. Italian Ambassador Mr. Valerio Augusto Astraldi, Senator David Norris, Mr. Aldo Aletti, President, Club di Dublino and Ms. Karen Kiernan, Director, One Family. Picture: Finbarr O'Rourke

Club di Dublino – an Italian business community association formed to promote friendship within the Italian community in Ireland and between the Italian and Irish people –  chose One Family to be the recipient of monies raised at their annual fundraising dinner which was held at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 22 October last. The guest speaker at the event was Senator David Norris and the Honorary President of Club di Dublino, H.E., Italian Ambassador Mr Valerio Augusto Astraldi, was guest of honour.

For the photographs of the evening, please take a look here.

See the press release here.

Budget 2009 Press Release

ONE-PARENT FAMILIES FACE THE FUTURE WITH FEAR NOT HOPE

One Family, the leading provider of specialist support services for one-parent families in Ireland, today calls on the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin T.D., to ensure that the most vulnerable families are not forced to pay further for the excesses of others.
One Family believes that Budget 2010 has the potential to destroy all the positive work that lone parents, their representatives and state agencies – including the Minister’s own Department – have done to reduce poverty and improve the prospects of one-parent families in Ireland. Such families are already poorer following the last budget, and have less hope of accessing education, training and employment than they had a couple of years ago. Such families are already having to watch opportunities for their children decrease and are now faced with the prospect of also losing many of the services that provide vital supports for them in their local communities. Read more