Kildare Focus 05.10.21

Kildare Focus

Tuesday, 5 October 2021 - 37 minutes

Mike Allen
Director of Advocacy, Focus Ireland
• Annual report 2020 - lack of single bed affordable homes is contributing to youth homelessness
• Charity engaged with 3,700 children & teens in 2020

Karen Kiernan
One Family
• National One Parent Family Alliance calling for urgent Government action in Budget 2022 to loosen poverty’s grip on one-parent families

Aoife O’Brien
Media Volunteer, Irish Cancer Society
• ‘Care For Your Pair’ – Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Aoife is a mum-of-two from Kildare and was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2020 at the height of the pandemic

Buzz O’Neill-Maxwell
Nightclub promotor
• Expecting 100% in nightclubs when they reopen on 22nd October

Corina Fitzsimons
PR & Communications Manager, Dogs Trust
• Female lurcher dog, who had recently given birth, dumped from a vehicle near one of the charity’s offices