Elaine Loughlin: Government has yet to get to grips with the housing and homeless crisis
More than 2,600 children will spend Christmas in hotel rooms, homeless hubs, and B&Bs, while the number of homeless adults dying this year has increased in Dublin, Galway, and Cork. File Picture
Santa has been deemed an essential worker and will not face any Garda checkpoints on his way in and out of Irish airspace on Christmas Eve.
The recent Dáil announcement by Simon Coveney, the foreign affairs minister, was welcomed by little believers up and down the country.
