'No one is turned away': Meet the Cork Simon team helping the city's homeless

Simon's outreach workers travel Cork City to check in on people sleeping rough, armed with sleeping bags and offering shelter, food, and hot drinks
'No one is turned away': Meet the Cork Simon team helping the city's homeless

Noreen Twomey and Mirjana Grgic.

A tarpaulin poked through frost-glazed vegetation in a Cork park, the one splash of colour in the frosty white expanse.

Icy spider webs stretched across railings and cascaded over bushes, so heavy with frost they looked like Halloween decorations people forgot to take down.

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