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This morning.

Custom House Quay, Dublin

President Higgins marked United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with an address at the Famine monument.

President Higgins said:

“When strangers who arrive on our shores in need or difficulty are left in the uncertain limbo of direct provision for anything up to ten years, I am ashamed.

When homeless families are forced to live in one hotel room devoid of cooking facilities, and subjected to a dehumanising set of rules and conditions; when others without a roof over their head are condemned to wander the streets by day, and desperately seek space in homeless shelters by night, we as a nation are failing to display the necessary spirit of humanity on which a democracy should be built.”

Full speech here

Rollingnews

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20 thoughts on “Poor Choices

  1. dav

    and yet the alt right will attack him for being Michael D Higgins, nothing to say about the shameful governance being displayed by Merrion Square.

    1. Harry Molloy

      it’s usually the loopier side of the left attacking him for not refusing to sign legislation that they don’t agree with

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      Yeah, great, that will sort out the homeless crisis and the refugee problem – they can all stay at the President’s gaff – would you ever.,.,…..

  2. Sheik Yahbouti

    Yeah, great, that will sort out the homeless crisis and the refugee problem – they can all stay at the Presidents gaff – would you ever………….

  3. Turgenev

    It’s as if he’s the only politician in the country who can actually see with clear eyes what is happening and what is right to do about it.

  4. ollie

    Michael D lives in luxury paid for by the taxpayer…………housekeepers, cooks servants.

    He’s some socialist

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      And would it help anybody if he lived on oatmeal and went around with no arse in his trousers, ollie? Try getting annoyed at the people who COULD do something about these things, and won’t.

      1. Sean

        What ? people like Michael D who was a Minister and long serving TD but did nothing except add another massive pension to his collection

        Man with pension entitlements from the public purse amounting to 250,000 qhowls at the injustice of poverty …… what a charlatan

  5. Joe

    Tell the Government Mr D, they can change that. The man on the street can only do so much to help but the solution needs to from the top down not the bottom up.

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      If he had referred the bill to the Supreme Court, and it had been found constitutional, then the Bill /Act would be rendered immune from legal challenge in perpetrator. As it stands the legislation in question is still open to attack, or amendment.

  6. Truth in the News

    When Higgins flings open the doors of the Vice Regal Lodge to those
    yearning to break free from poverty and to give shelter to those with no
    home, and renouce the huge salary and live on Old Age Pension we might
    take heed of him, but verbal gestures are worthless for man that knew
    poverty in his youth.

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