One Family 40th makes RTE TV news

Thanks to everyone who joined us in the Pillar Room at the Rotunda last night for a wonderful celebration of the work One Family/ Cherish has done over 40 years – and looking forward to what has yet to be achieved for better lives for one-parent families – see some of our impressive founders here […]

More clients’ stories for our 40th

  Thanks to Katherine and Joanna for sharing their One Family experiences with us. We will be posting more stories from clients over the next week, to mark our 40th anniversary year.

One Family founder Maura O’Dea’s memoir now on Amazon

To mark the 40th Anniversary of Cherish/ One Family we’re delighted that Poolbeg Press has re-issued ‘Single Issue’ – the memoir of Cherish’s key founder Maura O’Dea Richards, as an eBook. See here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Issue-ebook/dp/B009OJ8YGA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8 It only costs €5 and Maura is donating any profits to the charity. It is a great read – all about […]

Read our Clients’ Stories

Read our Clients’ Stories of how One Family helped them To mark the occasion of our 40th, some of our clients have kindly shared their stories with us and we will be publishing them on the website all this week. See the first of them here, thank you to Marian Tannam and Rebecca for these […]

Read about One Family founders in Irish Examiner 16th October

This interesting piece in today’s Irish Examiner explains how some brave single parents set up One Family, forty years ago, when things were very different in Irish society. http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/alone-we-stood-210918.html