As a star rugby player for Leinster and Ireland, Shane Horgan knew the value of a great diet to aid performance and competitive play.

The Peter McVerry Trust says tents are not a safe solution to rough sleeping.

It comes after the Government was forced to postpone a commemoration ceremony for the Royal Irish Constabulary in Dublin Castle.

Caring professionals, not just billionaires, should be valued according to President Michael D Higgins.

"I met Peter when I was 10 years of age. I was homeless and Peter asked me one day what I was doing walking around Summerhill all day."

A forklift operator, who stole a replica head of one of the Twelve Apostles from the National Wax Museum, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

The Trust has built eight apartments for homeless people at New Street South in Dublin 8, which are to be unveiled today.

The Housing Minister has defended the government’s Rebuilding Ireland plan and insists that a large state-owned site in Cork, which has lain vacant for years, is being considered for housing.

Joe McKeever is somebody who will benefit from a mobile data-sharing initiative from An Post to keep Ireland's homeless connected.

Household incomes are struggling to match the average cost of rental accommodation, according to new research from the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI).

Owners of vacant properties have been urged by the Peter McVerry Trust to avail of the Government's Repair and Leasing Scheme to cover the cost of works and ease the housing crisis.

New legislation is planned to prevent landlords from evicting long-term tenants without a clear reason.

A homelessness charity says it is ‘really concerned’ that a report from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office on family hub centres runs the risk of further stigmatising those living in temporary accommodation centres.

At least 25 new social housing units will be provided for homeless families after the Capuchin Day Centre provided €5m in funding to the Peter McVerry Trust, with the Pope’s visit providing a surge in donations.

An Post has launched a new service to provide a fixed address to homeless people and those in temporary accommodation.

Harvey Norman’s staff and customers worked together and have raised funds to kit out 20 new homes for those experiencing homelessness.

Fifteen groups have won the Google Impact Challenge Dublin and each will get €50,000 in grants.

Almost 100 OPW properties are lying vacant but only nine have been deemed suitable for social housing.

The scheme will cater for people with a long history of homelessness or acute support needs.

62.5% of people around the world don’t have access to safe sanitation.

That’s nice…the runaway global success of Brendan O’Carroll’s foul mouthed mammy, Agnes Browne resulted in Brendan O’Carroll and his wife, Jennifer Gibney sharing a dividend windfall of €1.3m last year.

I am not saying the Catholic Church can solve the housing crisis, but it should show leadership, writes Victoria White

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

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460 asylum seekers who have secured their refugee status are still living in direct provision centres, in many cases because they cannot secure alternative housing.

The Government has the capacity to build 50,000 social houses in the next two years but this would not be the solution to the homeless crisis, the housing minister claims.

One Dublin hotel was last year paid €4m to €5m to accommodate the spiralling numbers of homeless in the capital.

People have donated nearly €1m worth of water refunds to homeless charities.

Louth County Council is leading the way in reusing empty buildings for social housing and other local authorities should follow their example, Fr Peter McVerry has urged.

We've got the reaction as it comes in, after the Government today unveiled the National Development Plan, billed as Project Ireland 2040.

A young couple struggling with homelessness have managed to turn their lives around, thanks to housing activists, writes Joyce Fegan

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

The Peter McVerry Trust is announcing the first phase of a series of social housing projects for Dublin.