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On Tuesday, September 25.

A special screening of Through The Cracks, a documentary about the challenges facing families in emergency accommodation will be held in the Dáil for members of the Oireachtas.

Through The Cracks was created by poet and visual artist Ingrid Casey with Bold Puppy film-makers Nathan Fagan and Luke Daly and director of photography Kevin Minogue.

Ms Casey spoke at the recent Danielle Carroll Summer School and told how, when she became a lone parent in 2014, she very narrowly avoided homelessness.

The documentary continues to be linked with a People’s Housing Plan petition on UPLIFT calling on the Government to build more public housing and to stop its reliance on the private developers. The petition currently has more than 8,000 signatures.

It can be signed here

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A Day For Danielle

Through the Cracks.

A short documentary, by Ingrid Casey, which was launched at the Inspire Gallerie on Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, yesterday evening.

Through the Cracks explores the experiences of three different mothers and their children who are now living in emergency accommodation.

The most recent figures show, in the final week of June, there were 6,048 adults, 3,824 children and 1,754 families living in emergency accommodation.

Of these 1,754 families, 1,081 are single-parent families.

At last night’s launch, one mother, who lives in a ‘family hub’ with her two children after her landlord sold the house she was renting last September, told those at the launch that her eight-year-old child had battled suicidal thoughts and that she had to confiscate robes and ligatures for her child’s protection.

Another mother, who lives in a separate accommodation centre and who was previously homeless at the age of 13, battles with similar thoughts and worries about her own son’s mental health.

The documentary was launched in tandem with an Uplift petition for a People’s Housing Plan which can be signed here

Previously: Free Wednesday?

Through The Cracks is a ten-minute film about families living in emergency accommodation in Ireland.

It’s been created by poet, visual artist and lone parent Ingrid Casey with Bold Puppy film-makers Nathan Fagan and Luke Daly and director of photography Kevin Minogue.

It will launched at Inspire Galerie on Gardiner Street this Wednesday at 6pm, followed by a panel dissuasion chaired by Clare O’Connor, the director of Inner City Helping Homelessness.

Ingrid, who gave a speech at the recent Danielle Carroll Summer School, said:

“When I became a lone parent in 2014, life was very frightening in terms of changing my housing situation and I had narrowly avoided homelessness. However, these stories in the news continued and continued, and I knew when Danielle Carroll died that I could do something, and that I had to.”

The documentary is linked with a People’s Housing Plan petition on UPLIFT calling on the Government to build more public housing and to stop its reliance on the private developers.

It can be signed here

Through The Cracks

Related: Mother who took her own life was devastated by homelessness, event hears (Kitty Holland, Irish Times)