A homeless agency says they are seeing an “influx” of prisoners who have been released early in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in overcrowded jails.

A Dublin homeless charity is calling on the government to implement an emergency plan for the homeless following the confirmation of Covid-19 as a worldwide pandemic.

Much of Ireland's homeless accommodation would be "closed down overnight" if it faced similar quality checks to the country's hospitals, according to a prominent homelessness activist.

The record numbers of homelessness reported by the Department of Housing are just scratching the surface, according to charities in the sector, who have warned that the reality is far worse.

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

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

Inner City Helping Homeless CEO Anthony Flynn says the evacuation has brought up questions on whether the building is fit for purpose.

The number of children accessing homeless services has fallen for a third month in a row to 3,675.

The housing crisis is the result of 20 years of bad politics... bad political choices and bad ideology, writes Fergus Finlay.

More than 600 other families may end up homeless as the demand for hotel beds from the tourism sector continues to grow.

Hundreds of people turned up to eat at a Dublin restaurant that was giving its day’s taking to homelessness.

A charity has described a plan to house homeless people in Mountjoy Prison as “dangerous”.

Songwriter Glen Hansard has accused the Government of behaving like Donald Trump in its handling of the homeless crisis.

Early morning commuters walked past a dead homeless woman on a Cork City street before her body was found.

A homeless man has died after being found unresponsive in a tent in one of the wealthiest parts of Dublin.

This is what it looks like to live in emergency accommodation.

Latest: Two men who were sleeping rough are reported to have died last night.

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.

The Government has billed the country's new budget as a national response to new risks and opportunities.

A homeless man, named locally as Joe Moorhouse, 41, has been found dead in a tent in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Several campaign groups with bagpipes, costumes, and houses made from cards, greeted TDs as they returned to the Dáil after the summer recess.

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Inside the Custom House, yesterday morning, were Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, and the chief executives of the 31 local authorities, sitting around a boardroom table, writes Joyce Fegan.

An emergency motion has been put forward to open a book of condolences for three homeless people who died in the past week.

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

A home repossession “guillotine is on the way down”, dwarfing the current homeless crisis and creating a huge catastrophe.

A new campaign is being launched today to tackle child homelessness.

A video of a nine-year-old boy crawling around the floor of his homeless accommodation has gone viral.

A video of a nine-year-old boy crawling around the floor of his homeless accommodation has gone viral.

Maybe the theme of embarrassing the Government really is the way to go, writes Michael Clifford

A former Dublin hotel, which is undergoing building work and was being used as emergency accommodation by Dublin City Council for homeless people, has been issued with a closure order, according to a homeless charity.

A leading homelessness campaigner has said services for the homeless are in “turmoil”, as more than 40 people slept rough on one street.

Footage has emerged of a member of An Garda Síochána ticketing the outreach van of a well-known homelessness charity.

A volunteer with a homeless charity in Dublin was assaulted in the early hours of yesterday morning as she gave out food to people sleeping rough.

Dublin Lord Mayor Christy Burke has said that the Taoiseach's decision to visit homeless people on the streets of inner city Dublin last night was not a “political stunt”.

The scale of the homelessness crisis in Dublin has been highlighted by one charity, claiming it provided food and clothing to 158 people one night this week.

There were 177 people found sleeping on the streets of Dublin by a homeless charity on Thursday night.

A homeless charity said it recorded the highest ever rough sleeper count on the streets of Dublin last night.