'The system continues to fail': Homeless organisation says deaths within homelessness are 'avoidable'

Inner City Help & Homeless (ICHH) CEO Anthony Flynn, seen here during a visual protest to highlight the number of tents popping up around Dublin last year, said there had been a spike in the number of people sleeping rough in the capital in recent weeks. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

There has been a considerable jump in the number of people sleeping rough in Dublin over the last two weeks, according to one organisation working in the sector. 

Inner City Helping Homeless said their outreach teams assisted 146 people, 120 men and 26 women, as the tail end of Storm Ellen hit the capital.