Soup kitchen run by Muslim Sisters of Éire among estimated 24 voluntary on-street facilities targeted for regulation under controversial plan
Red Cross volunteers helping rough sleepers during cold snap feel like the ‘plaster on a broken leg’
Ireland’s conservative thinking holds that because people have personal choice, they are responsible for their own destiny in life. This is a half-baked, divisive, meritocratic philosophy
Outreach teams and soup kitchens provide much-needed food, cold-weather packs and community on the capital’s freezing streets
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’
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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
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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’
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More than 10,000 emergency beds were already occupied by homeless people in Dublin last month
Child homelessness rises 17% in last year, Department of Housing data shows
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