Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy is in for a well-deserved round of scorn and derision after images of a child eating his dinner off a cardboard box were widely circulated in the media recently.
The image depicted a five-year-old child kneeling down and eating food off a piece of cardboard set on the ground. The images, and what they suggest, have been compared to pictures of a third-world slum, yet it happened on our doorstep.
The homelessness crisis in Ireland continues unabated, with over 10,000 people officially listed as homeless across the country.
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