More than 600 households homeless due to eviction in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Galway
There were 614 incidences of families and single people entering into homelessness in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Galway. File picture: iStock
More than 600 households have been evicted into homelessness since the start of the year in four of the major cities across the country, stark new figures show.
In total, there were 614 incidences of families and single people entering into homelessness in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Galway.
The figures are highest in Dublin City, where 208 families were evicted from rental accommodation and entered homeless services since the start of the year. In addition, 92 single people were given notice to quit and had to access homeless services in the capital.
In Dún Laoghaire, the council recorded 68 households being evicted into homelessness since the start of 2025.
Questions submitted by independent councillor Madeleine Johansson to South Dublin County Council found that 155 households had to leave their rental accommodation, at the end of June.
Outside the capital, Limerick City and County Council said 39 families entered into homeless services after receiving a notice to quit from their landlords.
In addition, 38 single people were evicted into homelessness.
In Cork City, the council confirmed that a total of 14 households have been evicted into homelessness so far this year — five families and nine single people.
The council also provided information on the reasons for the evictions. Three were evicted due to being tenants for less than six months. A further three were evicted as the house was “unsuitable accommodation”.
Three more were evicted because the landlord was selling the property, while one family was forced out due to fire damage at the property.
The remaining four — all single people — were evicted for either rent arrears or antisocial behaviour.
In Galway City, figures from the council show that 10 families entered homelessness services after being evicted — six single-family households and four couple-family households. In addition, seven single people entered homeless services in Limerick during the same period due to eviction notices.
Simon Communities of Ireland chief executive Ber Grogan said that, while the figures were not surprising, they were “shameful”.
Ms Grogan said a fall in homelessness figures has only occurred in recent years alongside a ban on no-fault evictions.
While such a ban will be reintroduced next March, she pointed out it will only apply to larger landlords.
“We would say that radical steps need to be taken to switch back, to stop the never-ending flow of people being pushed into homelessness,” Ms Grogan said.
It comes as the number of people in emergency accommodation reached another record high in June, with a total of 15,915 accessing homelessness services.
Figures from the Department of Housing show that 4,958 of those were children — the highest figure ever recorded for child homelessness in Ireland.
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