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
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