Doras Buí is a community development Resource Centre & Early Years' Service that provides high-quality support and programmes to one-parent families living in the North-East Dublin area. We are committed to the delivery of excellent early year’s services in a safe and inclusive environment where children and families are facilitated to reach their full potential”. We aim to support lone parents to extend their life choices, overcome discrimination and isolation and become socially and economically independent.
We are a social enterprise in Coolock. We provide both a full-time Early Years’ service and a Community Resource Centre. We have been working in the community since 1986. The origins of the name come from our open-door drop-in services. When we opened our doors over 36 years ago, we originally named P.A.R.C. (parents alone resource centre), in 1993 we opened our Community Creche called Súgradh – the Irish for play.