9,000 face being homeless by end of the year

Three years ago, Tara McNeill was sleeping rough and addicted to drugs and alcohol.

After 16 years of homelessness, she has now been housed and, in August, the grandmother went to Oslo to represent Ireland on the women’s football team at the Homeless World Cup.

“I was sleeping rough on the streets, I wasn’t well at all. I was a drug addict and an alcoholic,” she said.