Homeless number tops 9,000; more than one third are children

A new record of 9104 people are homeless in this country.

More than 9,000 people are officially recorded as homeless, including 3,267 children.

The latest figures for the unprecedented crisis show 1,517 families are being housed in hotels, hostels, B&Bs and hubs with close to 1,200 of them in Dublin alone.