Michelle Ward is a 34-year-old lone parent living in a mobile home at the side of her father’s house in Galway with her four-year-old son Gavin. However last year her landlord put up her rent to €1,200 which she could not afford and was forced to move back to her father’s home. This article is part of the special report on homelessness published in the Irish Examiner in print and online on Monday, December 22. “I can’t work because there is no one to mind my son, my father is recovering from cancer, and my mother is deceased. “If you see inside our mobile, my son’s room has black mould on the curtains.

Source: Irish Examiner December 22, 2025 02:30 UTC