A facade.
Gript revisits the Grand Canal migrant tent shantytown, which has re-emerged with 46 new tents despite the metal barriers. A significant number of men living in the tents say they are from Jordan.
Surge in numbers.
Ongoing.
A homeless man in Bray who featured in a news video watched 55,000 times in a couple of days has now been offered emergency accommodation by Wicklow County Council The man, named Michael, will now not spend Christmas sleeping rough. His story is to be featured in a forthcoming documentary about homelessness in Ireland. He […]
“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
Two homeless people were found dead in Dublin over the bank holiday weekend, bringing to “over 50” the number of those found dead while homeless in the first ten months of 2020. Independent Councillor Anthony Flynn told the Irish Times that the number of deaths of homeless people had increased from 37 at this point […]