Above: volunteer Marian Smyth and Brother Sean Donohoe this morning
This morning.
Bow Street, Arran Quay, Dublin 7
The Capuchin Day Centre for homeless people is currently handing out over 2,500 Christmas Hampers this morning.
There are at least 19 items in each hamper, including groceries and meat. Volunteers at the centre have been handing out tickets for the hampers to guarantee enough will be packed when those in need turn up .
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Fair play to them all !
+1
And like every year people who dont need them will go down because they’re too miserable too spend money.
You’d imagine that’s a tiny percentage, it must be very humbling and possibly even demeaning collecting a food parcel, I hope I never have to suffer the indignity.
My father would never pass someone on the street without giving something. One time I was in town with a friend and his father and his father passed someone begging and told us that most of them were chancers and that he would never give them anything. A bit later when I was in town with my own father I told him this, what my friend’s father has said about them all being chancers. He said “maybe they are and maybe they arent but if they are out here in the cold, sitting on the ground with their hand out, they need it more than me. Thats all I know”.
Very true. A noble sentiment.
He sounds like a good man, your dad.
Well he was a hypocritical old bugger as well
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
OH you cheeky little monkey man
It is I know,I also live close enough to there and give them in stuff every year. But iv had first had experience of miserable fupps coming in getting the hamper and then running up to the Vincent for another. These are people who don’t need it, its past annoying but we cant say no to them.
And how is it any skin off your nose?
Christianity in action. Jesus is just alright.
it has boo boo all to do with christianity, kid. it’s humanity and decency, that’s all. if it was christianity, they’d be looking for something in return.
you know little about the carpenter and his work brother b
but I know lots about those that profess to follow him today
Way to generalise about 1 billion plus people Barnabas.
Happy Christmas in any case. Happy Christmas to all.
I know! it’s like a secret club for baleful scammers
See! Pro-life people DO care about those after they’re born
“With your avenger eyes
And your catlike ways
I can hold you
You are a fool”