Category: Press Releases

Messiah Performance in aid of One Family

Posted on 11/02/10 by comms No Comments

Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2 December @ 8pm, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin 8. Tickets Euro 30. One Family, the support organisation for one-parent families, is delighted to announce that it has been chosen as the benefiting charity for this year’s performances of Handel’s Messiah by the Culwick Choral Society. With performances on 1 and 2 [...]

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One Family and EBS call on you to host a Big Night In, 15 May

Posted on 05/06/10 by comms No Comments

Money raised from Big Night In will go towards the running of the askonefamily helpline To mark UN International Day of the Family on 15 May 2010, One Family and EBS Building Society are inviting everyone in the country to celebrate families by hosting a Big Night In. Big Night In is a new fundraising [...]

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Reforms for Lone Parents – less or even more poverty for one-parent families?

Posted on 04/26/10 by comms No Comments

One Family welcomes the new Minister for Social Protection Minister Éamon Ó Cuív T.D’s efforts to improve the economic situation and social wellbeing of people in one-parent families. However they remain gravely concerned as to the whether the reforms of the One-Parent Family Payment as recently announced will result in improved outcomes for lone parents [...]

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One Family seminal research highlights need for Child Contact Centres in Ireland

Posted on 04/13/10 by comms No Comments

Ground breaking research by One Family, the leading service provider for people parenting alone and sharing parenting, launched 12 April 2010 at Dublin Castle by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Barry Andrews, TD, has called for a network of child contact centres throughout Ireland. The research entitled Supporting Child Contact: the Need for Child Contact Centres [...]

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One-Parent Family Payment Reforms

Posted on 01/06/10 by admin

Minister Hanafin’s kite-flying on lone parents must be grounded One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation providing specialist support services for people parenting alone and sharing parenting has hit back at proposals by Minister Hanafin to impose more social welfare cuts on lone parents. Candy Murphy, Policy & Research Manager of One Family said: ‘while we continue [...]

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One-parent families faced with poverty

Posted on 12/09/09 by admin

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 [...]

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

Posted on 11/19/09 by admin No Comments

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 [...]

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Budget 2009 Press Release

Posted on 10/14/09 by admin

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 [...]

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Italian business community to support One Family

Posted on 09/11/09 by admin

Club di Dublino Limited – an Italian business community association formed to promote better interaction and friendship within the Italian community in Ireland and between the Italian community and Irish people – are hosting their annual charity fundraising dinner at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 22 October.  The guest speaker at the event is Senator [...]

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Calls to one-parent helpline increase by 20% in Ireland

Posted on 09/11/09 by admin No Comments

Italian business community rallies to support… One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation supporting one-parent families, has experienced an influx of calls to its helpline as the recession deepens. In response, 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 [...]

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