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Province of Ireland
All Ireland
M
others’ Union in Ireland operates as a whole
island organisation encompassing two
Provinces – Dublin and Armagh. Some of the 12
dioceses straddle the border so work in two currencies.
Every diocese has trained parenting • Down & Dromore’s link with local prisons
facilitators and is reaching parents through and a school for pupils with severe learning
the extended schools programme. Members difficulties
run child contact centres and parent and • Dublin & Glendalough’s link with a local
toddler groups as well as a range of nursery and a project addressing
community projects: homelessness
• Kilmore, Elphin & Ardagh’s support for
• Providing clothing and toiletries for adults with learning disabilities in a
women’s refuge centres residential home
• Preparing baby clothes and overnight bags • Limerick & Killaloe’s family days organised
for hospitals in partnership with the Youth Council
• Providing knitted trauma teddies for the • Meath & Kildare’s work towards the
emergency services Christmas Shoe box appeal
• Presenting Baptism cubes and anniversary • Tuam’s emergency bags for hospitals
cards to new parents
Each year there is a residential conference
More specific projects include:
for young members and annual tea parties
• A weekly Fit for Life Course in Armagh
for indoor members. Three members have
offering exercise, a health talk and worship
been trained under the Community Network
• The Cashel & Ossory Marriage Awareness
scheme and every two weeks set up social
Course (team members pictured above)
tale-conferencing
• Clogher Parent and Toddler Groups, which
with Indoor
are used by health visitors and community
Members.
workers as a point of contact with parents
Members in
• Connor’s cookbooks for university students
Ireland give
• Cork, Cloyne and Ross Away From It All
generous
holidays and parenting courses
support to the
• Derry & Raphoe’s contact centre
Overseas Fund.
Fact File
Population: 4,156,119
Mothers’ Union members:10,500
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