Housing Crisis: ‘That’s what has been taken away, your dignity’

Cheryl Barnewell, 26, has been told to sleep in a Garda station twice in the last three months when no emergency accommodation was available for her family of four in Dublin.

“They said, ‘You can’t stay here’ when we arrived at the Garda station on Tuesday night,” Ms Barnewell told the Irish Examiner.

Ms Barnewell, Glen Concannon, 26, and their two sons, Clayton, 9, and Rocco, 23 months, have been homeless since last October after the property they were renting was sold.