Another tier of support is urgently needed to ensure homeless people who are barred or ejected from emergency shelters do not have to sleep on the streets.

Vicious and unprovoked assaults were carried out by a man in two separate attacks where he stamped on a man’s head and kicked a woman full force in the head.

A Frenchman attacked in the middle of the day in Cork City suffered head injuries that resulted in his death, and yesterday his family travelled from France to see the culprit jailed for five years.

The Garda file in the case against a man accused of killing a French homeless man in Cork City will be completed and ready to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions before Christmas, it emerged yesterday.

A man in his 20s has appeared before a special sitting of Cork District Court charged with the manslaughter of a homeless man in the city earlier this month.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of Vincent Morgain, the Frenchman who died in Cork City earlier this week.

Gardaí in Cork are trying to establish if a Frenchman died as a result of an alleged attack in the city centre.

A major €1.5m road and pedestrian safety upgrade is set to begin on the roads around Cork’s main bus station where two pedestrians have been killed in the last year.

A 28-year-old Corkman has been remanded in custody after he was charged with the manslaughter of a 30-year-old Polish man in Cork city earlier this year.

A man is due in court in Cork this morning in connection with a serious assault on a Polish man at the weekend.