The annual cost to Galway County Council of dealing with homelessness is becoming “unsustainable”, according to the local authority’s moneyman. Ger Mullarkey, head of finance, was...
There are currently around 26 people sleeping rough on the streets of Galway City, according to the local authority. A number of councillors raised concerns at...
If your vision of homelessness is someone sleeping in a doorway in a tattered sleeping bag on a bed of cardboard or old newspapers, think again....
“It’s not the cold, it’s not the wet that affects you the most, it’s the lack of dignity to take care of your own personal needs...
Community centres should be used as a short term measure to accommodate the homeless instead of handing over thousands to private providers, a city councillor has...
More than 20 people are believed to sleep rough on the streets of Galway each night, according to local charity COPE Galway. The charity has blamed...
Galway’s homelessness crisis is continuing to worsen with one local charity working with more than 400 people in the first six months of this year –...
Galway City Council has been directed to release the names of city hotels and B&Bs it uses to provide temporary emergency accommodation for homeless people. In...
