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News | Our 45th Anniversary Media Interviews and Open Door Day

One Family celebrates 45 years in 2017. We were founded by a small group of strong, brave women in 1972. You can read more about our history here. This year, we will also be moving from Cherish House on Lower Pembroke Street, our home for over 40 years, to our new building in Smithfield, Dublin 7 next […]

Press Release | Report Calls on State to Support One-Parent Families: Cites a Decade of Our Work

Press Release New Report Calls on State to Support One-Parent Families to Escape Poverty  And Cites a Decade of One Family’s Research and Policy Work (Dublin, Friday 16 June 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone and sharing parenting – responds to a report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection […]

Press Release | Creative Fun at Smithfield Square on 27 May with our Free Family Day Fest

Press Release Creative Family Fun at Smithfield Square Annual Family Day Festival celebrates family diversity in Ireland today. Family Day Festival | Saturday 27 May 2017 | www.familyday.ie (Dublin, Monday 8th May 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating – celebrates the wonderful diversity of families in Ireland […]

Press Release | Census 2016 Reflects the Real Diversity of Families in Today’s Modern Ireland

Press Release Census 2016 Shows Increase in One-Parent Family Households and in People who are Divorced Reflecting the Real Diversity of Families in Today’s Modern Ireland Government must step up with policies and services (Dublin, Thursday 6th April 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and separating – responds to […]

Press Release | One-Parent Families almost Four Times More Likely than Two-Parent Households to Live in Consistent Poverty – SILC

Press Release One-Parent Families almost Four Times More Likely than Two-Parent Households to Live in Consistent Poverty According to new Survey on Income and Living Conditions Government must do more to remove the barriers trapping thousands of lone parents and their children in poverty. (Dublin, Wednesday 2nd February 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for […]