Special report: Death and despair on Ireland's streets

Volunteer Ryan sorting the food at Penny Dinners on Little Hanover Street, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

It's been just over a year since a general election that was run on the twin issues of housing and homelessness. In that year, an unprecedented global pandemic has utterly changed Irish life. With people confined to their houses, those without homes are dying in unprecedented numbers. More people known to homeless services are dying — and everyone wants to know why, and how to stop it, writes Noel Baker.

"It's growing, growing all the time," Caitriona Twomey says of the deaths of people known to homeless services.