The approach Manon Border Chavene took when coming up with a garden design for the annual Kilsaren Student Competion was to put herself into the mindset of someone who was homeless — but who had just received a a house.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted the pending political battle over water charges will not collapse his weak minority Government.

GIVEN the welcome political response to Ireland’s homelessness crisis, it is alarming to hear from the Peter McVerry Trust which states in its annual report that the “problem of homelessness is now out of control”.

It is almost a year since the Government launched its capital plan covering 2016 to 2021. The plan received a broad if cautious welcome at the time, though the focus of attention soon switched to the budget.

The man who died in St Stephen’s Green on Monday was buried yesterday in his home village in Kerry.

Forensic tests are being carried out on a handgun and bicycle believed to have been dumped by the killer of innocent gangland attack victim, Martin O’Rourke.

In your article ‘Bank loans “best” for homeless charities’ it is stated that I “asserted up to €500 million in funding for social housing made available by the Housing Finance Agency was left unclaimed” (Irish Examiner, August 25).

Sr Stanislaus Kennedy has admitted she could never have imagined that the homelessness situation would be as bad as it is now when she founded Focus Ireland 30 years ago.

A summit to address the homeless crisis will take place tomorrow after an outpouring of grief over the death of Jonathan Corrie just metres from Leinster House. 

A leading anti-homelessness campaigner has described Government plans to prioritise top level tax rate cuts in the budget instead of addressing poverty-causing policies as "obnoxious".

Homeless services are in a worse state now that they have ever been.