Cork homeless group calls for action on homelessness crisis
Home Sweet Home Cork says people on the verge of homelessness go without food and heat as a means to pay rent and mortgages
Over 55,000 people in Cork are suffering from food poverty.
That's according to the Home Sweet Home Cork group, who staged a protest earlier this week at the City Hall in solidarity with the occupiers of Apollo House.
They say people on the verge of homelessness, are going without food and heating to pay the rent or mortgage.
The group was set up in solidarity with the Home Sweet Home occupation of Apollo House by homlessness campaigners in Dublin, which came to an end earlier this week.
Speaking on the Neil Prendeville show on Cork's RedFM Home Sweet Home activist Rachel O'Sullivan says those suffering from food poverty are not reflected in homeless figures across the country.
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