‘I was so terrified’: How domestic abuse victims are becoming homeless
The housing crisis, underreporting of numbers and confusion over local authority housing rules mean those fleeing violence risk homelessness
Homeless Crisis
Appetite for radical change grows as voters’ patience wears thin over housing crisis
Half of all voters say country’s problems are getting worse instead of better
‘The rental situation needs to change’: Pet owners struggle to find homes in a housing crisis
Couple with three pet dogs say they have struggled to find accommodation for a number of years
Woman found dead in tent on Dublin street ‘got a raw deal’ and ‘deserved better’, funeral hears
Clondalkin woman (43), who was homeless and found unresponsive in a tent in Dublin, remembered at service by family and friends
‘She was really loved’: Family of homeless woman found dead in tent urged her to come home
Natasha Smith gave her two sons ‘the best start in life’, but was ‘failed’ by the system
Woman living in tent found dead on Dublin’s Pearse Street
Charity describes Natasha Smith as ‘being as happy as she could’
Carmel was in her 60s when she suddenly found herself homeless
Rent has ‘skyrocketed’ completely out of range of people on a pension
‘Dog-whistling’ or ‘difficult truths’? Harris draws fire for housing crisis-migration link
Tánaiste in hot water over comments on immigration and homelessness, but insists his position has been consistent
Council rejects Tánaiste’s claim large number of homeless have no housing right
Simon Harris defended by Independent councillor Malachy Steenson
Refugees must wait three years for spouse and child reunification under new plans
The number of unsuccessful asylum seekers who left Ireland was up 89% last year
Early Edition podcast: Vulnerable, evicted and facing homelessness at 70, and today’s other top stories
Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan
Numbers entering homeless services from direct provision surge since pandemic
People with status ‘squeezed out’ of direct provision and cannot find housing, says advocacy group
In so-called bad old Catholic Ireland, there was no homelessness
Rite & Reason: There is a small but significant return to the Christian faith, particularly Catholicism
‘I survived. I’m not Dennis the Wino any more. I’m Dennis the Legend’
Anyone who spent time in Galway between the 1970s and 1990s knew Dennis Connolly. Of his ‘brothers of the street’ from those days, he says, he is the only survivor
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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