Over 1,000 calls being made to SVP each day

50,000 families are expected to be visited by St. Vincent de Paul this winter.

The charity is currently receiving over 1000 phone calls a day from people in need.

SVP says it had expected the number of people in need to decrease in the run up to Christmas due to the improving economy.

However the organisation’s National President – Clonmel man Kieran Stafford – says that’s not the case.