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Are there any legitimate reasons for begging?

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  • #32
    hawkelady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    99% of homeless get the dole!!
    Yes you need an address but your local priest/ church will give you that or you can use a hostels address.
    So if you are down on your luck and ain't completely dependant on drugs and other expensive pastimes , you will not starve ..


  • #33
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    Except:


    Baby Jesus
    Santa
    Mother Teresa
    Mr Miyagi

    Look hard enough in the Bible and you will find him advocating death.
    Mother Teresa got the Hitch treatment.
    I'll give you Santa and Mr Miyagi!


  • #34
    WumBuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭WumBuster


    Speak to st Vincent de paul would be your first port of call I would say


  • #35
    starfish90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭starfish90


    hawkelady wrote: »
    99% of homeless get the dole!!
    Yes you need an address but your local priest/ church will give you that or you can use a hostels address.
    So if you are down on your luck and ain't completely dependant on drugs and other expensive pastimes , you will not starve ..

    Ha I never knew that-I may start telling them that so!It's hard to know who is actually being genuine too-a friend of mine offered a homeless person a sandwich and a drink but they didn't want it-they just wanted money..


  • #36
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Bumped into a guy on Oliver Plunkett Street Cork the other night and my friend gave him €2, He said he was badly strung out for Heroin and was he shaking, I'v never seen him before but he was from Dublin judging by his accent.

    Simon have a house a few doors down from me and to be honest they do look after the house, They had a few unsavoury characters there over the years but nothing as bad as some of the degenerates that live in other houses here.

    I was surprised to see a young Romanian girl begging at about half 1 am on the South Mall recently, Surprised because she was only 14/15 and on her own.


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  • #37
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Answer: Wasters who deserve no support.

    You lose your house and home, and have nothing and nobody to your name, not a single person who would want to take you in.......Jesus christ, doesn't say much for you does it?

    Maybe not, but you're post says plenty about you... none of it good.


  • #38
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Biggins wrote: »
    I personally know of no place that gives away free meals three times a day in every town.

    It is possible to get breakfast,dinner and sandwichs all free in Dublin.
    There are drop in facilities who provide for homeless .


  • #39
    boo3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭boo3000


    I love that there's loads of advice here on where to get cheap or free food.

    Very helpful for all the genuinely starving AH lurkers :D


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