Workers prepare to sleep 'on the street or in the airport' over Cork Jazz weekend

Young Spanish workers who came here, influenced by YouTubers, are afraid to tell family at home about their uncertain living situation.

Joaquin Acevedo, 26, from Chile; Pablo Alias, 28, from Spain; Alfonso Sanz, 23, from Spain; Rahal Fillal Kilch, 25, from Spain; Joan Rodriguez, 20, from Alicante; and Alba Figueroa Filgueira, 23, from Navarra, Spain.

A group of young immigrant workers who came to Cork to improve their English and find work are planning to sleep on the street or at Cork Airport over the weekend as they cannot afford a hostel bed, after finding it impossible to find a room to rent in the city.

Over the last month, six 20-somethings who left Spain for Ireland in the hope of “better wages and quality of life” have found each other in Sheila’s Hostel, and helped each other to survive sleeping in cars, on people’s floors, and bussing around the county to AirBnbs on busy weekends, when there are no beds to be found in the city.