Homeless Crisis

Call has been made by Irish Homeless Policy Group as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael continue talks aimed at developing a programme for government

Concerns raised about plans to draft legislation to end practice where groups provide hot food to people queuing on city’s streets

Many men categorised as ‘single adults without dependents’ are fathers may or may not share custody of children

International protection applicants without accommodation will be housed during cold weather, department says

Court allows cities to criminalise sleeping outside as president-elect promises to ‘get the homeless off our streets’

With Met Éireann forecasting snow across Ireland, homeless people in Dublin city centre face an uncertain time

Some 4,658 children are in emergency accommodation as Darragh O’Brien says addressing crisis is ‘an absolute priority’

When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert

Some 20 organisations will receive €25,000 each to support their work with young people

Outdoor food services to homeless people ‘well-meaning’ but lacking in dignity and safety, council says

President pays special tribute to members of the Irish Defence Forces who will be overseas this Christmas for showing ‘an example of Irishness and its values at its best’

Vanessa O’Callaghan had just been given a sleeping bag and food by the Kindness Krew volunteers when she was attacked in Patrick Street

Fees paid in 2022 and 2023 to Lavelle Solicitors, whose managing partner Michael Lavelle is a brother of McVerry director Richard Lavelle

Report for AHBRA points to ‘serious’ governance failings in charity

Some 50 tents pitched at Kildare Place on Thursday after men told to leave ‘cold weather’ beds in Citywest

Irish Refugee Council criticises ‘illogical’ move by State authorities which is understood to impact around 135 men

Record number of asylum seekers without accommodation comes as Government’s cold weather initiative ends

All the parties have acknowledged the need to deliver a higher number of homes and the greater involvement by the State in doing so

Leah O’Shaughnessy and Melanie Martin co-wrote the book in the wake of the Dublin riots

Figures published on day of general election show annual increase of 13.5 per cent in those accessing emergency accommodation

Injured man was in a critically hypothermic condition at Youghals where he had been living rough

Focus Ireland’s latest Insights report documents how 50 families experienced homelessness

Planning decision will have implications for other homeless facilities across the country

Election 2024: Social Democrats pledges €1 offpeak public transport fares and 50,000 affordable purchase homes if in government

There are 4,561 children across Ireland who tonight will go to sleep in beds they don’t call their own

At 85, the long-time social campaigner says there’s no such thing as a typical homeless person: ‘every one of them is different, all have their own story, their own background’

Former minister for housing Eoghan Murphy’s account of his failures (and failings) is candid, unforgiving, unfiltered and utterly brutal

More than 10,000 emergency beds were already occupied by homeless people in Dublin last month

Shameful increase

Child homelessness rises 17% in last year, Department of Housing data shows

If they didn’t die on the streets then they probably died in a hostel. Two thirds of them would have died alone

Those who knew Byrne describe a generous and kind-hearted man whose adult life was shaped by years of addiction

HRB analysis shows those who died while homeless were much younger than the Irish average at the time of their death

Cases outside Dublin reveals poor administration of homelessness law on emergency accommodation, says Mercy Law

The Ombudsman for Children is a clinical psychologist from Donegal, who has worked in the area of child protection for more than 20 years

Rising homeless service costs ‘should’ be borne by Department of Housing, Dublin City Council says

Study examining childhood experience finds exposure to structural inequality in early years is central to educational success

Susan Reynolds (35) from Darndale, Dublin, has since secured housing through the charity Hail, and is studying psychology at UCD

Latest figures show there are 47,936 households on social housing waiting list in Northern Ireland

Interim chief executive at Peter McVerry Trust was paid €1,000 a day following resignation of previous CEO