Useful Links
Useful Contacts for Lone Parents
Issues relating to separation and parenting:
Treoir
Telephone: 1890 252 084
or email Treoir
www.treoir.ie
Parenting Programmes in the Tipperary Area
STLPI - South Tipperary Lone Parent Initiative
Telephone: 052 61 27429
or email STLPI
www.stlpi.ie
Housing rights:
Threshold
Telephone: 01 6786310
www.threshold.ie
Legal:
FLAC (Free Legal Aid Centres)
Telephone: 01 8745690
www.flac.ie
Debt:
MABS (Money & Budgeting Service)
Telephone: 1890 283 438
www.mabs.ie
Social Welfare
Citizens Information Centres
Telephone: 1890 777 121
www.citizensinformation.ie
Dept of Social & Family Affairs
General Information Telephone: 1890 66 22 44
www.welfare.ie
Equality & Rights Alliance
Ireland can't afford cuts in equality and rights
www.eracampaign.org/
Family Support Agency
Telephone: 01 611 4100
www.fsa.ie
AIM Family Services
Telephone: 01 6708363
www.aimfamilyservices.ie
Dublin City Childcare Committee
Telephone: 01 5424100
Dublin City Childcare Committee
Crisis Pregnancy Agency
Telephone: 01 8146292
www.crisispregnancy.ie
Women's Aid
Telephone: 1800 34 19 00
www.womensaid.ie
Parentline
Telephone: 1890 927 277
www.parentline.ie
Parental Equality (Men)
Telephone: 042 9333163
www.parentalequality.ie
Barnardos
Telephone: 1850 222 300
www.barnardos.ie
National Women's Council of Ireland
Telephone: 8787248
www.nwci.ie
Rollercoaster Parenting Website
End Child Poverty Coalition
Coalition Members
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
- Focus Ireland
- Children's Rights Alliance
- National Youth Council of Ireland
- Barnardos
- Pavee Point
National Anti-Poverty Networks
- Children's Rights Alliance
- Community Workers Co-operative
- European Anti-Poverty Network-Ireland
- Forum for People with Disabilities
- Irish Traveller Movement
- Irish Refugee Council
- Irish Rural Link
- Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed
- Older Women's Network
Community Platform
Currently there are 28 national organisations in the Community Platform:
- Age Action Ireland
- Community Action Network
- Community Workers Co-operative
- Cairde
- European Anti-Poverty Network
- Forum for People with Disabilities
- Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
- Irish Association of Older People
- Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed
- Irish Penal Reform Trust
- Irish Penal Reform Trust
- Irish Refugee Council
- Irish Rural Link
- Irish Traveller Movement
- Migrants Rights Centre
- National Adult Literacy Agency
- National Network of Women's Refuges and Support Services
- National Traveller Women's Forum
- National Women's Council of Ireland
- Older Women's Network
- Pavee Point
- Rape Crisis Network of Ireland
- Simon Communities of Ireland
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
- Threshold
- Voluntary Drug Treatment Network
- Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice
- Womens Aid
Government Departments and Agencies
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Combat Poverty Agency
- Office for Social Inclusion
- Crisis Pregnancy Agency
- Equality Authority
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Family Diversity Initiative
Family Diversity Intiative Members
- Age Action Ireland
- One Family
- Children's Rights Alliance
- Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
- Focus Ireland
- Forum for People with Disabilities
- National Consultative Committee of Racism and Interculturalism
- Treoir - the national federation of services for unmarried parents and their children
For a comprehensive list of all Government bodies check out Information on the Irish State
Other useful sites
Economic and Social Research Institute - ESRI
Central Statistics Office
This page was updated on 28th January, 2010