Army charity seeks funds to expand services for homeless ex-servicemen

An organisation supporting former members of the Defence Forces is trying to raise extra funds to expand services for homeless ex-servicemen.

The volunteer-run Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen (One) is appealing for public help, indicating it needs at least €600,000 annually to run services with plans to increase them in line with the rise in homelessness among former members of the army, naval service, and air corps.

Chief executive of One, Ollie O’Connor, said single men in particular were falling through the cracks and they were now seeing much younger former servicemen in trouble than ever before.