Increased emergency accommodation.
3 meals a day
I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I rarely go out. The only thing I do for myself is play golf.
“For ten years we’ve had homelessness…why didn’t they provide hotels like they did for refugees?” A man who claims he’s been on hunger strike for 24 days outside the GPO speaks on his demands to the government. #gript
Statistics released to TD Peadar Tóibín
“Those who are most vulnerable in our society.”
“[Irish people] have the right to be frustrated.”
The Irish Government has neither the duty, nor the right, to damage the interests of its own people to advance the cause of another.
In the case of the homeless, let’s also be honest: Politicians simply do not have sustained pressure from the public to solve the problem.
We will put this in the category of “darkly amusing”: https://twitter.com/CloHiggins/status/1391083611860967426 You might wonder why a “wheelchair friendly” park bench is something that anybody would bother to invent. After all, people in wheelchairs – not through choice, of course – are not lacking for somewhere to sit down. Life has forced them to take a […]
A Trinity College study published today has found that found that people who are homeless can experince accelerated physical ageing – with homeless people aged between 20 and 40 having the same physical mobility as 70 to 80 year olds. The research demonstrates an extremely high burden of physical and mobility problems experienced by people […]
There was, across much of the media, and politics, widespread condemnation in recent days of the news that a global property firm, Round Hill Capital, was set to purchase most of the homes in a new 170-home development in Kildare. The frustration amongst a lot of people on hearing this news was perfectly understandable, if […]