I arrived on O'Connell Street on Friday evening just before 6pm - and the queue for the Muslim Sisters of Eire soup run had already reached the corner of the GPO.
The volunteers were unloading boxes and small crates from their trucks. They had everything ready to go: drinks, bread and pastries, insulated food boxes, coolers, and fruit and vegetable crates. A carton box of children’s snacks was later given to a mum with two young children, who put it under her baby’s stroller.
The volunteers were hastily unloading things and moving them to the long table, where the hungry service users were patiently waiting. The man inside the truck told me that Fridays are always the busiest, and he later showed me the queue which was now going beyond the corner.
