Tag Archives: Donal Maloney

asylum

Last week.

Unidentified (as per Urbex rules) former psychiatric hospital somewhere in Ireland.

Donal Moloney writes:

In 2006 the Irish Government signed up to a policy which would close and sell off it’s portfolio of Psychiatric Hospitals. Among these are some magnificent 19th Century properties which had provided shelter to the homeless, the addicts, the mentally ill, the misfits and the simply unwanted for over 150 years….

Donal Moloney

john

Donal Moloney writes:

“I’ve talked to a lot of homeless people in the last few months and shot a lot of footage with their permission. Here’s just one of the chats I had with John, a heroin addict. No shelters for this lad.”