Homeless Mum Commits Suicide After Struggling To Get Permanent Housing For Family

A homeless mum has been found dead in a hotel room after she was unable to find a permanent place for her family to live.

Danielle Carroll was having housing issues and eventually the pressure got to her and she allegedly ended her own life at Leixlip House Hotel in Kildare, Dublin, where she lived with sons DJ and Carter.

The 27-year-old was discovered on Wednesday. It's been revealed since her death that Danielle had been allocated a house by South Dublin County Council.

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"[Danielle] had been on the housing list with South Dublin County Council l since she was pregnant with her son DJ," Danielle's mum, Margaret, told the Irish Independent. "Then she was trying to find a place on the HAP scheme and got a room in the hotel in Leixlip, but she found it very difficult there because the room was small and she had no cooking or cleaning facilities.

"She was struggling. She went off the rails with worry and she would say that nobody cared about her.

"She got hope then recently when the council offered her a bungalow in Glenshane here in Tallaght.

"It was a boarded up house . . . she was that desperate to have somewhere to live that she accepted it and was finally looking forward to moving in only for her hopes to be dashed."

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Her mother revealed that she'd also been struggling with anxiety and was seeking help, which made her outlook on everything become "hopeless."

The mum-of-two's friend Linda said: "She got a letter from the council on Wednesday the week before to say they were withdrawing [an] offer and substituting it with a different place in the Meile an Ri estate in Lucan, but when she saw it she was horrified.

"The back door was burned off it and there had been people sleeping rough in it. She didn't want to bring the boys up there. She thought she would be going backwards."

So sad.

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If any of this sounds familiar, please don't suffer in silence. Reach out. It's the brave thing to do.

MIND: 0300 123 3393.

Samaritans: 116 123.

CALM: Outside London 0808 802 5858, inside London 0800 58 58 58.

Mental Health Foundation.

Topics: Mum, Housing

Mark McGowan

Mark is a journalist at LADbible, who joined in 2015 after a year as a freelance writer. In the past he blogged for independent football fan channel Redmen TV, after graduating from Staffordshire University with degrees in journalism and English literature. He has worked on campaigns such as UOKM8? and IIOC.