The number of homeless people in Dublin is at its highest number ever.
The Simon Community has launched its annual report which shows that homelessness in the capital rose by over a third in 2015.
228 people went without a bed in Dublin last night, 169 people slept rough on the streets while another 60 slept on the floor of the Merchants Quay Cafe.
'All the people that I loved had abandoned me, I had abandoned me'.
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The report found that only one in ten people have a chance of moving out of homelessness, while almost 60 per cent of people in emergency accommodation have been homeless for more than two years.
Housing Minister Simon Coveney says they're working to bring the numbers down.
Kim Buckley has this report:
