These shocking photos show rough sleepers in our capital city bedding down for the night as the winter chill starts to bite.
Huddled in laneways and doorways, they hope makeshift cardboard shelters will protect them from overnight temperatures as low as zero. Charities are warning of homeless deaths unless extra beds promised under Dublin Regional Homeless Executive’s winter initiative are rolled out.
Tony Walsh of Feed Our Homeless said the scheme should have started two weeks ago, but there are still no extra beds in the system. He told Irish Sunday Mirror: “Over the last four to five weeks there have been numerous nights with no beds available.
