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# homeless crisis

Last year
2023
Vigil held in memory of the 402 homeless people who died in Dublin since 2018
12 Jul 2023
10.2k
50
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Shuttered shops and scaled-back soup runs: Covid-19 leaves Ireland's rough sleepers in the cold
28 Mar 2020
59.3k
50
'Freezing cold, very scared and homeless': Volunteer describes discovering homeless woman on Dublin street
10 Jan 2020
45.3k
64
Over 10,400 now in emergency accommodation, new figures show
3 Jan 2020
9.5k
64
'I am worried about the cold - it kills me': A night on duty with a Dublin homeless charity
8 Dec 2019
35.4k
51
'Despair when I see how the Government is behaving': Brother Kevin slams Government housing policy
8 Dec 2019
47.5k
76
Timmy Hourihane murder 'reveals danger faced by homeless people on the streets'
Updated 14 Oct 2019
20.3k
47
Smithfield's homelessness tour guide: 'Most locals don't get to talk to anybody who is homeless'
11 Jul 2019
34.8k
17
Opinion: 'Homelessness in Ireland has many faces and come this June I could be one'
Janette Byrne
21 Mar 2019
30.8k
65
Sean O'Casey's last home set to be used as homeless accommodation
14 Mar 2019
16.1k
20
'I can sleep at night now': iCare buys 19 homes to save families from eviction
17 Jan 2019
27.7k
39
'We're not ignoring the elephant in the room': Officials hope new law can deal with rising student rent
22 Nov 2018
12.8k
37
'He chose to die at home. The hostel was his home': Lynn Ruane on hidden health problems in homelessness
Lynn Ruane
14 Oct 2018
22.5k
13
Bank-appointed receiver launches court proceedings against 'campaigners' occupying a property on Pearse Street
11 Oct 2018
10.9k
1
'You feel like you have no life left': Teenager living in hotel speaks about daily struggle of being homeless
5 Oct 2018
19.2k
97
Child homelessness rises 35% during Eoghan Murphy's first year in office
24 Jul 2018
16.3k
101
Homeless children in education: 'She is very tired in school, exhausted, I would be too if I had to travel'
Updated 3 Jul 2018
16.3k
51
'We have to give back something': The barber who cuts hair for the homeless outside the GPO
25 Dec 2017
10.5k
9
'The second half of the night was harder but we knew we weren’t experiencing the real thing'
19 Dec 2017
6.8k
4
'You're giving back dignity': Meet the man who fits dentures for the homeless outside the GPO
9 Dec 2017
22.2k
40
'Perhaps that wasn't the question': Taoiseach may have misunderstood homelessness question
20 Nov 2017
19.8k
109
'I am absolutely furious' - Fr Peter McVerry criticises Taoiseach and senior council official for homeless comments
15 Nov 2017
40.5k
121
Children coming to school from hotels 'is a blight and a stain on our Republic' says principal
20 Oct 2017
10.5k
27
'I'd get my pocket money and give them an ice cream' - 2,973 children are homeless in Ireland
15 Sep 2017
15.0k
24
'For people with disabilities this is a crisis within a crisis'
12 Aug 2017
7.9k
17
‘It's unacceptable that homeless children are being born into BnBs’
30 May 2017
10.1k
18
Coveney's aim for no homeless families in hotels by July? Not a chance says McVerry
28 May 2017
10.7k
42
TD claims hotels are asking families to leave as Patrick's Day demand surges
12 Mar 2017
22.4k
56
'There are definitely stories that would fit onto the big screen': Jim Sheridan reflects on Apollo House
23 Feb 2017
8.4k
7
'Imagine the trauma, fear and confusion': 55% surge in child homelessness
16 Feb 2017
8.9k
86
Funding approved for 83 new houses to address homeless crisis
27 Jan 2017
17.9k
55
Students to hand petition of 10,000 signatures to Simon Coveney over homeless crisis
8 Jan 2017
11.9k
53
Occupation of empty Dublin apartment block by homelessness activists ends
29 Dec 2016
29.4k
88
Over 2,500 children are homeless this Christmas - here's what's being done to help
18 Dec 2016
10.6k
42
Glen Hansard says the taking over of Apollo House is an 'act of civil disobedience'
16 Dec 2016
41.7k
151
Simon Coveney rules out reducing rent cap limit from 4% to 2%
14 Dec 2016
10.9k
87
Temple Bar tattoo parlour defends sprinkler system to deter rough sleepers
8 Dec 2016
36.9k
42
'Don't let us die': Homeless men's fears as makeshift camp on south Dublin green grows
30 Nov 2016
49.4k
37
'The most loving girl': Tributes paid at funeral of homeless woman in Limerick
11 Nov 2016
54.0k
100
'I'll believe it when I see it': Homeless activist on council's promise of 210 extra bed spaces
20 Oct 2016
6.8k
31
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