This is Leinster Road. A man lived in this doorway for the last year. The hoardings went up on Friday, the graffiti last night. Who indeed? pic.twitter.com/kaSEqpIl3r
— Jack Sheehan (@YuleGoat) May 24, 2021
This afternoon.
Leinster Road, Dublin 6.
Good times.
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Jesus. the lack of public space in Dublin is solely down to the Council’s desire to keep homeless people moving on and not having somewhere to rest a minute, in case the precious tourists get the wrong idea of our hotel city. worst council in the world. hands down.
Same logic that saw Portobello Square closed.
full of homeless?
anyone paying for pointless cruelty is a sap.
Pointy cruelty is worth paying for though. I’d pay up to 20 quid depending on the pointiness
Why is that nice big building vacant at a time like this?
I think that is Rathmines library. The side door.
I don’t think it is vacant.
Thats the side door to Rathmines Library, The main door is around the corner.
Is this why the Custom House on the quays is also boarded up?
I used to live down the street from that spot until recently. Passed that guy several times a day and night. Never gave me a bother and was just doing his own thing, trying to survive. This seems entirely inhumane and uncalled for. It’s hard to remember now since it’s been so long since that building was open but I’m not even sure that that side door is even used (I could be wrong).
Let me guess, it was the same numpties who locked up Portobello who erected this wall. Has the bloated orange left Maralago and moved to D6?
You’re dead right that the guy who lived there was totally harmless, kept himself to himself and didn’t cause any hassle. He lived there for 2 years in fact. No one bothered him. Previously, a different guy lived there for about 2 years also and no one bothered him either, though he really deteriorated physically in that time being a chronic alcoholic. The guy who lived there up to a few days ago had been fine though he had also started to physically deteriorate. More worryingly for people living or going to school around there, his personality changed to a huge extent over a short space of time. He started begging from cars waiting at the lights and begging from and shouting at passing parents and kids doing the school drop to St Louis Primary School around the corner. He’s a large dude, supposedly from Poland and ex-military which might explain why he kept the place so neat. He also was reported to the Guards for kicking the mother of a kid from St Louis. About a month ago a couple in their 50s set up a tent beside him. They were hard drinking, arguing and hanging washing up everywhere. It’s a residential road with schools, library and there is an Educate Together school going in to that building which is the old Rathmines Music School. It might make people feel good to drop off blankets and food to someone living in a doorway and to spray graffiti up about cruelty when the doorway is blocked off but actually, people with these issues need to engage with proper services. Living on a road with schools and families so close, in a doorway, is not an answer for him or for the community. No easy answers and you have to feel for someone living like that but there are usually underlying addiction or mental health issues that go along with it. If those problems aren’t tackled, the person eventually spirals downhill and ends up arrested and imprisoned, dead or living a zombie existence with their physical health deteriorating year on year. The Council says there are adequate services available for people like this. I’m not so sure. I think Dubliners in general can see the street homelessness crisis worsen. The tents along the canal would break your heart. It can’t be that all of these people cannot be reached. Any political party that prioritises helping them meaningfully would get my vote.