Fresh call to use vacant hospital to house homeless people after two die in the Grand Canal 

The clear out of the Baggot Street Hospital began last Thursday after the building lay idle for five years. It is one of the buildings proposed as emergency accommodation for homeless people. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews 

Fresh calls to use vacant buildings in Dublin city to house the homeless have been made after two men were found dead in the Grand Canal on Saturday morning.

The men, who were in their 40s, were homeless at the time of their deaths, it is understood. They are believed to be Irish nationals.