Number Of Homeless Children In Ireland Surpasses 5,000 For First Time As Kildare Numbers Also Rise

Friday, 29 August 2025 14:25

By Martin Osborne

To contact the Kildare County Council's homeless team, call 045 980 230.

For the first time, the number of homeless children in Ireland has surpassed 5,000.

Nationally, 16,058 people were registered as homeless in July.

The number of people homeless in Kildare has also increased.

170 people were registered homeless across the county as of the last week of July, up from 165 in June.

296 people were registered homeless in Meath, up from 292.

The figure for Wicklow is 93, up from 86.

The data does not include rough sleepers, women in refuge centres, asylum seekers, refugees or the so-called "hidden homeless".

To contact the Kildare County Council's homeless team, call 045 980 230.

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