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Ian Dempsey Launches Family Day 2012 for One Family

Press Release ONE FAMILY & EBS LAUNCH FAMILY DAY AND ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF THEIR FAMILY DAY ART COMPETITION AND A PICNIC TO BE HOSTED IN DUBLIN’S IVEAGH GARDENS ON SUNDAY 13 MAY IRISH BROADCASTER, IAN DEMPSEY CALLS ON FAMILIES ACROSS IRELAND TO CELEBRATE FAMILY DAY 5 April 2012 – To mark International Day of the […]

Our New Contact Centre gets loads of press coverage

We got loads of press coverage for the launch of our new Child Contact Centre service which is great. Here is One Family Director Karen Kiernan on The Last Word with Matt Cooper explaining all about it at 15 minutes into the clip. http://media.todayfm.com/listenback/98/monday/1/popup

Over half a million people live in one-parent families in Ireland

Here are some figures of interest from Census 2011 1 in 8 people in Ireland live in a one-parent family (Census 2011) 567,311 persons out of a general population of 4,588,252. 1 in 4 (25.8%) families with children in Ireland is a one-parent family (Census 2011) 215,315 lone parent families out of 834,266 families with children. We previously reported […]