Girl’s heartbreaking letter to President Higgins shows reality of homelessness crisis

"I live in a bedroom with my mom, two brothers and two sisters; that’s six of us in a bedroom, you can’t be a family not like this.

“So Mr President I am asking for your help to help my family. Christmas is coming and I would like for us to be in a home call friends over little thinks like that mean alot when your a child.”

It’s easy to look past the spelling when reading the poignant words of a schoolgirl writing directly to President Michael D Higgins, in a letter released by Focus Ireland yesterday.