Special report: Time to end the ‘national shame’ of child homelessness

Kasey Earley (10), above with her mam, Jodie Murray,  illustrated the  front and back cover of 'Homeless Stories: What is lockdown like without a home?' and also wrote about her experience of living in emergency accommodation with her mam and little sister during the Covid-19 lockdown.  Picture: Marc O'Sullivan

The chief executives of two organisations behind a new book chronicling the personal accounts of children aged five to 13 living with homelessness in Ireland tell Dolan O’Hagan what they are hoping it will achieve.

In 2015, a total of 880 children were registered as homeless in Ireland at Christmas. The latest figures for 2020 reveal that number now stands at 2,642.