A homeless charity said many of the people it assists are worried about how the coronavirus pandemic will impact their health and the health of those they interact with.

The Simon Community is calling on hotels and Airbnb hosts to offer their spaces to local authorities for homeless people that may have to self-isolate.

Nickie Egan, principal of North Presentation Primary School in Cork city, started the initiative two years ago when she counted 12 homeless families among the 270 strong student population.

No cessation of works application has been made as part of a legal challenge to the development of a family hub for the homeless off Aungier Street in Dublin, the High Court has heard.

The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive spent €170m putting homeless families up in emergency accommodation last year.

Nineteen hotels in Dublin each received payments in excess of €1m last year to provide emergency accommodation for the homeless.

Irish environmental organisation, Repak and waste recovery operator Panda have raised €20,000 in aid of Focus Ireland, through a joint plastic recycling initiative.

The Government has hailed a significant drop in homelessness after new figures showed the number of people in emergency accommodation fell below 10,000 for the first time since last February.

His body was discovered in a tent in the Leeson Street area late last night.

The owner of a play centre who opened its doors on Christmas day to families living in emergency accommodation says she got very emotional when little kids thanked her for giving them a proper festive dinner.

An award-winning photographer is giving a voice to Dublin’s homeless through his photography blog.

With wintry showers and a sharp drop in temperatures the Government has been urged to make extra beds available for the homeless.

A homeless charity has criticised Dublin City Council after its worker removed jackets from the Ha'Penny bridge in Dublin.

A brain-damaged homeless man has been on remand for more than a year in Mountjoy Prison’s high dependency unit despite persistent reports he is of unsound mind and needs residential care, the president of the High Court has heard.

The number of children in homeless accommodation being referred to Tusla is continuing to rise, with latest figures showing mandated reports peaking over two months last summer.

The State's biggest homeless shelter is to open in Dublin city centre, but a local councillor says no one was consulted.

Laws should be introduced to put a time limit on how long children can stay in emergency accommodation, a new study has recommended.

A homeless and drug-addiction charity has said 11,300 people accessed its food, shelter and medical services last year.

A picture showing a young homeless boy who is living in emergency accommodation eating a dinner off cardboard on the ground in Dublin has sparked outrage online.

Emergency accommodation and social housing will be prioritised in the upcoming Budget, Minister Eoghan Murphy has promised.

There are now 10,338 homeless people in the country, according to new Department of Housing figures for August released this morning.

Gardaí have seized a quantity of homemade alcohol in a raid on an apartment in Cork this morning.

There has been an increase of more than 1,000% in the number of families becoming homeless every month since 2011, a charity has claimed.

Farmers think the lack of social housing does not concern them, but accommodation shortages and rent hikes are not confined to cities and towns, says Anne-Marie O’Reilly.

Almost 4,000 children in homeless accommodation are being stigmatised and denied equal chances in life, charities are warning.

A Dublin-based charity has highlighted the struggle many families face when sending their children back to school.

The Government is considering bringing back previously shelved plans to encourage homeless people to leave Dublin and move to other parts of the country when the Cabinet returns next month.

Michelin star chef, Takashi Miyazaki, is one of many people who responded to a special appeal made by a charity to ensure nobody homeless on the streets of Cork went hungry.

A 54 year old homeless man found slumped on steps in Dublin city centre died due to hypothermia.

Homeless families in emergency accommodation in Dublin will be given access to free public transport for the month of August.

One of the country’s main homelessness campaigners has described the Government’s Rebuilding Ireland plan as “an abject failure” which exacerbated the problem it was meant to address.

A charity has called on Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy to resign after the latest data from his Department shows that the number of people officially recorded as homeless remains above 10,000.

One of the largest homeless hostels in Dublin is to close in the coming days.

Nine out of 10 families that are now homeless had stable housing histories and lived in their last stable home for over a year.

There has been another increase in the number of people who are homeless.

The number of unique clients using the country's first homeless night cafe rose by 10% last year, with Merchants Quay Ireland revealing that more people pushed into homelessness because of the housing crisis are accessing the service.

A young mother and her three children have been evicted into homelessness from the home she rented for nine years.

Derek McGuire, a former rough sleeper, says the free personal address offered by An Post would have helped him recover his sense of identity.

A new report into homelessness in Dublin has found that a large number of people living in emergency accommodation are from outside the European Union.

Somewhere in the bowls of Government Buildings, this week or next, a committee made up of second-tier bureaucrats, maybe a theatre consultant too, will meet to update preparations for the events scheduled to mark this Republic’s looming foundation centenaries.

The number of people homeless has exceeded 10,000 for the first time as a new report shows a year-on-year rise in rents.