Students petition Minister Simon Coveney to bring an end to homelessness

School students have made an impassioned plea to Housing Minister Simon Coveney to end homelessness. They presented him with a petition with 10,000 signatures.

Students from Ard Scoil na Mara secondary school in Tramore, CBS Midleton and Edmund Rice college in Carrigaline, Co Cork, joined the High Hopes choir at Carrigaline Court Hotel yesterday to present the petition to the minister.

The students from the Edmund Rice school have launched a campaign to end homelessness as part of their focus on social justice issues.