A young woman with mental health and addiction issues, evicted from a flat after losing her rent allowance, was found dead in a tent in Cork City after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

Another tier of support is urgently needed to ensure homeless people who are barred or ejected from emergency shelters do not have to sleep on the streets.

The 40-year-old woman found dead in a doorway on a Cork city centre street has been remembered as a “kind, nurturing lady”, who died in the same spot where her aunt passed away seven years ago.

A massive clean-up operation is under way across Cork City after Ophelia left a trail of destruction.

A homeless charity will stage its largest-ever fundraiser next week to help put the country’s first mobile ‘homeless shelter and shower bus’ on the road.

A volunteer group which released a charity single to raise money for a bus for the homeless secured the vehicle within hours of the song’s release.