A soup kitchen that provides up to 2,000 dinners a week to the homeless in Cork has issued an urgent appeal for specific small tinned items that can be given out to the needy during the outbreak of Covid 19.

A number of pancake recipes for those who are coeliac or gluten intolerant are available online.

Sports legends including Roy Keane, Tomas Ó Sé, Thomas Mulcahy and Rob Heffernan were among those who dropped in to support broadcaster, Trevor Welch's, fundraising booksale.

Members of the public who donate to homeless charities this Christmas are asked to refrain from handing in soiled duvets and underwear or blankets which have previously been used by dogs and are covered in hair.

All profits from the event will be used to provide Christmas dinner for homeless people in Clare on December 25.

High walls hide a hive of activity as builders on stilts expertly plaster and polish what will be Cork Penny Dinners' brand new day centre in the city.

CBC students Donal, Max, Theo and Jack used joint birthday party to raise €880 for Cork Penny Dinners.

The image of a child eating his food off a piece of cardboard on the streets of the capital should outrage society, leading campaigner for the homeless, Fr Peter McVerry believes.

A homeless chef who was killed on the streets of Cork said in a moving radio interview last winter that he felt unsafe on the streets and had been hospitalised three times following assaults on his person.

More homeless people will die unless the Government increases its efforts to tackle the crisis, a frontline charity worker has warned.

A homeless man in his fifties who was savagely beaten to death was a talented chef who had bravely battled alcohol addiction without losing his sense of humour or his spirit.

Earlier this month, a husband and wife and their children walked from their emergency accommodation in Little Island on the outskirts of the city to the soup kitchen on Little Hanover Street.

A homeless Cork couple walked more than 10km pushing their toddler in a toy buggy to get a hot meal.

The deaths of three people on the streets of Cork in just six weeks highlights the need for an additional accommodation centre for the homeless in the city according to Fianna Fáil.

There’ll be no fear of too many cooks spoiling the broth when four Michelin star winning chefs join forces later this month to raise money for two Cork homeless charities.

A Cork hairdresser who is providing free hair cuts for Holy Communion children who come from vulnerable or needy backgrounds has encouraged salons across the country to follow his lead.

A 27-year-old man yesterday admitted the manslaughter of a 22-year-old mother-of-one but denied murdering her.

A young woman was put in fear when a stranger approached her saying she was a beautiful angel sent from God and when another woman intervened the man called her a slut and spat in her face.

A volunteer who is the powerhouse behind Cork’s Penny Dinners first developed the helping gene when she realised that when her father went “missing” on Christmas morning he was actually out feeding the city’s elderly.

The brother of a homeless man who died while sleeping on the streets of Cork said there is a grieving family behind each of these tragedies.

Homelessness is a complex and multi-faceted issue. Roisin Burke speaks to those working on the front line in Cork about what needs to be done to alleviate the crisis.

Cork Penny Dinners are looking for ‘Christmas Box’ donations as they prepare for the holiday season, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

Fifteen people were arrested in Cork City centre over the weekend as part of an ongoing garda operation targeting suspected organised begging activity.

Fifteen people were arrested in Cork City centre over the weekend as part of an ongoing garda operation targeting suspected organised begging activity.

Today marks the beginning of National Volunteering Week. Ellie O’Byrne pays tribute to our unpaid heroes.

A soup kitchen charity has called for an increase in the national minimum wage after seeing people with jobs turning to it for help.

A soup kitchen charity has called for an increase in the national minimum wage after seeing people with jobs turning to it for help.

Staff at Cork Penny Dinners were verbally abused by a drunken man who fell asleep after they had given him a three-course meal.

Musgrave Retail Partners have given quite the Christmas present to Cork Penny Dinners.

A district court judge said it was unacceptable for a man to beg for money on the streets of Cork to buy food for his dog. She fined him €150 for begging and €200 for having no licence for the dog.

A worker at Cork Penny Dinners slapped a visitor over the back of the head with a bottle, but the culprit accepted yesterday that his reasons for the attack were 100% wrong and mistaken.

Plans are being put in place to hold a national Garda Youth Achievement Awards ceremony.

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A Cork charity is reporting a noticeable increase in people seeking its help because they can’t afford food due to rising rents.