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“PEOPLE have to behave if they are getting public services and houses; there are rules. There’s a housing shortage and if they don’t behave there are other people who need those houses.”

Galway Simon Community has launched its 2025 Annual Impact Report, highlighting the growing importance of health, wellbeing and social integration services in helping people move beyond homelessness. The report comes at a time when homelessness in Ireland has reached record levels, with more people than ever relying on emergency accommodation.

This beautifully appointed elevated townhouse is located in one of Galway’s most sought-after developments and enjoys a beautiful setting. Built circa 2000 by O’Malley Construction, Dun na Carraige comprises a mix of apartments, townhouses, and detached homes with extensive, well-managed, mature open amenity spaces. It is located only a couple of minutes' walk from the iconic Blackrock Diving Tower and Salthill Promenade, facing Galway Bay and overlooking the Galway Golf Club.

COPE Galway and Simon Galway are two of over 170 organisations benefitting from the latest round of RTÉ Toy Show Grants, made possible by the generosity of the annual television spectacle.

On July 1, Ireland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months, and for the first time, housing will sit near the top of that agenda. That is not a coincidence, and it is not just an Irish story. Across Europe, the conversation about housing shortages has shifted. It is no longer framed primarily as a social issue. It is now being framed as an economic competitiveness issue, and that change in framing is hugely significant.

Councillor Helen Ogbu, Labour’s candidate in the Galway West by-election, has said the record levels of child homelessness must be treated as an emergency, following the latest figures showing more than 5,400 children now living in emergency accommodation throughout the country.

For years, Ireland’s housing crisis has been defined as much by planning constraints as by supply shortages. But recent policy signals suggest a notable shift in thinking; one that could finally move the system from restricting housing solutions to enabling them.

For years, Ireland’s housing crisis has been defined as much by planning constraints as by supply shortages. But recent policy signals suggest a notable shift in thinking; one that could finally move the system from restricting housing solutions to enabling them.

There has been some encouraging news on the national housing front in recent weeks. New home commencements rose sharply in January, increasing by 73 per cent to just over 2,000 units. On paper, this looks like the kind of momentum the housing market has been waiting for, but it remains to be seen if this impetus can be sustained.

A Clare man with no work history was advised that if he acquired a job he might be better in a position to take himself and his family out of the homeless situation they found themselves in.