Woman who died in tent ‘recently homeless’

The 30-year-old woman who died in a tent while sleeping rough in Cork was a “very decent girl” who had fallen on hard times, according to the head of a local homeless charity.

Jennifer Dennehy, who was originally from Blackrock in Cork, was found unresponsive by her partner in a tent in Gillabbey Park in the south west of the city in the early hours of Friday morning.

She was pronounced dead at Cork University Hospital. Her death is not being treated as suspicious.