While ministers and TDs enjoy their extended, taxpayer-funded Christmas break, 7,000 ordinary people are listed as homeless in the country those very same politicians are supposed to be looking after. 2,549 children are included in …
Approximately 7,000 people will be spending Christmas Day in emergency accommodation. The Simon Community’s latest report says there was a 26 per cent increase in people requiring their services in the past two years. The …
Teresa Ward, a mother of ten children was left with no water or electricity after her landlord had his providers  cut them  off in an attempt to get her to vacate the property just 13 …
Ranking high in a dismal track record of failures, the most shameful indictment of this failed Government is the current level of homelessness among children living in the State. Up to 2,500 minors are expected …
There are some positive news this evening, as two new facilities to house homeless people have opened in Dublin today. The Peter McVerry Trust (PMVT) has made available a 70-bed unit on Ellis Quay, while …
A great grandfather has received an eviction notice from his private rented home where he’s lived for over 15 years right before Christmas and the only thing that his local Council could offer him was …
Denver, Colorado, is one of the latest American cities to join the so-called ‘Hall of Shame’ of metropolises actively seeking to turn homelessness into a crime. Last Tuesday, Denver city officials and a large police …
The scourge of homelessness keeps making headlines almost on a daily basis, and the Government seem rather blasé about its citizen’s plight. 6,709 are now officially listed as homeless across the country, with an all-time …
The abject failure of the Government’s ‘efforts’ to do anything to resolve the homelessness crisis are once again blatantly exposed by cold figures. There were 998 families ‘living’ in emergency accommodation in Dublin during the …
The Government has today announced a series of initiatives to combat the spike in homelessness across the country in recent times. 200 extra beds will be made available for rough sleepers and 1,500 new ‘rapid-build’ …
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