Homeless support organisations are making contingency plans for the spread of Covid-19 among those in emergency accommodation and accessing night services.

A young homeless woman has died in emergency accommodation in Dublin.

On Monday night, ICHH observed 238 people sleeping rough in Dublin, the highest number ever recorded.

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

There has been another slight rise in the number of people staying in emergency accommodation.

It will take at least another three years before the number of people becoming homeless starts to decrease.

Update: The Dublin Region Homeless Executive says it has sourced a large number of additional emergency accommodation to cater for families during the Pope visit.

Hundreds of homeless families are turning down rented accommodation and are instead going into B&Bs and hotels in the hope of fast-tracking their offer of a local authority home, it has been revealed.

An urgent call for O negative blood donors has been made by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service after supplies dwindled to just four days because of the loss of a full day’s collection due to Storm Ophelia.

Latest: A second homeless person has been found dead within the last 24 hours.

Focus Ireland has said new Government figures reporting that, for the first time, over 7,000 people are homeless shows the crisis is deepening.

Dublin City Council is paying hotels, hostels and other emergency accommodation providers almost €1m a week to shelter the spiralling numbers of homeless in the capital.

The number of homeless people in Dublin has increased by 35% in the last year, according to new figures.

A record number of families, including 269 children, became homeless in Dublin last month.

Thirty-three people known to be homeless died last year in Dublin and Cork.

ON THE day the Government announced new taxation measures aimed at cutting the budget deficit by €1 billion, gardaí are investigating how a Slovakian man, who had been sleeping rough, died on a street in Dublin city centre.