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IRELAND’S BIGGEST MARRIAGE counselling provider saw an increase in demand for its services last year.
During 2013, Accord delivered more than 50,000 marriage counselling hours to 9,890 people.
Staff worked with 6,423 cases which included 56 per cent couples and 44 per cent individuals. The average number of sessions per couple or person was seven.
Among the list of top presenting problems were communication (not listening or ignoring), anxiety and stress, conflict, intimacy, finance, sexual issues and emotional abuse.
Accord, the Catholic marriage care service, also provided 7,600 couples with marriage preparation courses.
“While an increase in demand for marriage preparation courses is a positive development, ACCORD figures also indicate an increase in 2013 in demand for our marriage counselling service and, sadly, this tells another story,” says Bishop Christopher Jones, the president of the group.
“Difficult economic times have put pressure on people and in turn on their marriage and on their family relationships.”
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Why are comments closed on everything now?
@Kieran Stafford:
Did you not get the memo?
@Kieran Stafford:
Because The Irish Light Brigade are all over it lately like pissin’ puppies with their Alt-right tripe and tropes! Only until the Gemmaroid and Muddy Waters can somehow put together a truth-proof echo chamber for their hoardes of insatiable ‘truth warriors’!! ;~]
@Kieran Stafford: was just thinking the same thing! Freedom of speech my ass….
just buy a fake ukranian passport online and head to the local council office, youll be sorted out in no time.
@Niall English: Really? Lots of fake Ukrainian passports out there then?
@Niall English where can you get them,sounds like a good plan ? Can you get them online or is it a bloke down the local talking out his bumhole..
@Tom Dillon: yea…but no need, they won’t even ask for your passport…
@Niall English: shameful comment!
Graham Pickett HR W#nker: There’s a pensioner living out of his Nissan Micra for years on the quays in Waterford while any Tom, dick and Harry can walk off a plane with no documents an be housed! Ireland under FG and FF
Shocking legacy for ffg
No wonder! The government are taxing our income to record levels, the harder you work the more tax you pay, essentially de-incentivising people to be more dynamic & innovative because your ultimate benefit = money all gets taxed! Enough of this government & the regressive taxes they’ve put on us. We so badly need change in this country so if you work you actually earn more money to provide a good quality of life for your family! The issue is politicians are handed everything therefore don’t know the meaning or value of hard work but tax us so their overly inflated salaries & pensions are met!
Pray for the innocents of Gaza.
@Dan Breen: Religion is at the heart of the conflict.
@Pat the Baker: No, it’s imperialism.
@Dan Breen: Why don’t they just flush out weapon yielding people and get the hospital back functioning as quickly as possible.
People talking about fake Ukraine passport but there is no need to buy fake one – ORIGINAL Ukrainian passports sold without any problems! Again there was a video on DW that rents even in small Ukrainian towns like Uzhgorod reached 2000 euro for rotten 3 bed apartments and 1500 for old, fallen apart two bed! Need to be stone mad not to give it to let and arrive in Ireland to receive accommodation and thousands of euro from SW!
Daft to have “Charities” involved in trying to fix the Housing crisis….
“Far from Right” to ban BedSits … (by the leafy suburban middle class) a vital housing solution for many in society.
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