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Homeless man perishes on Dublin street

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  • #2
    The Moldy Gowl
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    Really dislike the word revellers.
    Should passerbys check on all the homeless to make sure they aren't dead


  • #3
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Is that all you can think of at a tragic time like this?


  • #4
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Is that all you can think of at a tragic time like this?

    Yes. Your op makes it sounds like the passerbys are guilty.
    Is that all you can think about?


  • #5
    Notavirus.exe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    I find news stories like this ridiculous. Homeless people only seem to receive attention from the government and/or media when they die.

    Homeless people dying shouldn't be something to worry about. People being homeless should be.


  • #6
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Walked down Westmoreland St at about 3am last night, horrible to think this poor man was laying dead on the ground as I and others walked by, poor man.

    RIP


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  • #7
    Long Time Lurker
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    Poor positioning. Should have died on Merrion Square.







    (Sarcasim intended before the easily offended brigade jump on me. I think most will understand I'm.referring to the cynicism of our political class)


  • #8
    Notavirus.exe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    Long Time Lurker wrote: »
    Poor positioning. Should have died on Merrion Square.







    (Sarcasim intended before the easily offended brigade jump on me. I think most will understand I'm.referring to the cynicism of our political class)

    No idea what you're talking about.


  • #9
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Homeless people are bound to die at some point, like all of us. It's sad that this man died alone on the streets, but passers-by can't be expected to check the pulse of everyone they see passed out on the street.


  • #10
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,138 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I wondered about starting a thread on this, since I saw him this morning not long after the Gardai arrived - covered over by then. According to some reports he was still there, in the open, over two hours later, while the scene was examined. Walked back the same way this evening, and there was no sign he'd ever been there. That's life, I suppose. Or not.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #11
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    kylith wrote: »
    Homeless people are bound to die at some point, like all of us.

    Except that they have life expectancies that are on average 30 years less (UK figures) than those of us lucky enough not to have to sleep rough on the streets.


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  • #12
    Sh1tbag OToole
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    This is becoming a bit a regular occurrence now


  • #13
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    This is becoming a bit a regular occurrence now

    My guess is it's always been regular, its just newsworthy now.


  • #14
    KilOit
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    Homeowner died on my road today, very sad, whats the government going to do about this problem of people dying in there own homes? disgraceful


  • #15
    flas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭flas


    Weird thing about this is I got a taxi up O'Connell street about 4 this morning and there was a homeless protest going on at the GPO,about 100people there all out for the night with banners etc...


  • #16
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    KilOit wrote: »
    Homeowner died on my road today, very sad, whats the government going to do about this problem of people dying in there own homes? disgraceful

    That's all you have to say?
    Very respectful humane comment. Hope you or yours never end up homeless on the streets.


  • #17
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Walked down Westmoreland St at about 3am last night, horrible to think this poor man was laying dead on the ground as I and others walked by, poor man.

    RIP

    I have to say, I hadn't been for a night out in town for a while and was flabbergasted at the amount of people in sleeping bags in doorways all over the very centre of the city.
    And this is from someone born and raised in Dublin.
    Georges St, Dame St, Temple Bar..............people everywhere.
    Very, very shocking to see.

    Rip to the poor chap.


  • #18
    Paramite Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    I was in a 24hr internet cafe a few months back in Dublin -- a lot of homeless people who couldn't get a room were spending their night there.

    One of them was only 14. A charity group came around with sandwiches & coffee at around 3/4am.

    When I move back to Dublin I plan to volunteer with them, I don't have money to give but I do have some time. It was hard to witness, it's one thing to pass someone on the street and forget about it 2mins later, it's harder to forget when you see it up close.


  • #19
    JupiterKid
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    Very sad to hear. As winter approaches I expect to hear about more deaths of homeless people.

    Most of us are only a few paycheques away from being homeless on the streets.


  • #20
    pmasterson95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭pmasterson95


    Sure ya wont get much interest here about Irish dying. Now if he was Syrian this would 10+ pages of eejits crying injustice. Hes irish. Just not as cool.


  • #21
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    pmasterson95 wrote: »
    Sure ya wont get much interest here about Irish dying. Now if he was Syrian this would 10+ pages of eejits crying injustice. Hes irish. Just not as cool.

    Oh Jesus would you give over. It's got nothing to do with bloody Syria ffs


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  • #22
    pmasterson95
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    Penny Tration wrote: »
    Oh Jesus would you give over. It's got nothing to do with bloody Syria ffs
    Hence why it is gaining no attention here. Its not a "cool" topic. Only the cool topics make the bandwagoners giddy.


  • #23
    Sunflower 27
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    Sadly the man was homeless so in all likelihood is he was going to die on the street. I was in Dublin last weekend and saw maybe 4 or 5 homeless guys passed out in sleeping bags. I presumed they were asleep and did not wake them. I am the furthest thing you will find to a reveller.
    May he RIP.


  • #24
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    If everybody checked to see if a sleeping homeless person was alive as they walked by, you'd have a lot of angry homeless folk.


  • #25
    Kluster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Kluster


    As the nights are getting colder I am sure we could expect a few more homeless to die on the streets...we need more sheltered housing soon


  • #26
    Kluster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Kluster


    Thanks


  • #27
    Riverireland
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    Smidge wrote: »
    I have to say, I hadn't been for a night out in town for a while and was flabbergasted at the amount of people in sleeping bags in doorways all over the very centre of the city.
    And this is from someone born and raised in Dublin.
    Georges St, Dame St, Temple Bar..............people everywhere.
    Very, very shocking to see.

    Rip to the poor chap.

    Have to agree. It's only when you see it that you can fully appreciate it, even worse when you think the hostels are open at this stage so the ones the are out are out for the night!

    RIP to the deceased.


  • #28
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Most of us are only a few paycheques away from being homeless on the streets.
    It's mad isn't it? I'm taking in okay money and yet am in fact permanently teetering on the edge of homelessness. That said, as a human being, one is permanently teetering on the edge of death.


  • #29
    JustTheOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    There is room for these people.

    It's been well documented they refuse because they have to refrain from drink and drugs in the hostels.

    Now in saying that maybe some of them haven't an addiction and choose for whatever reason not to stay there.


  • #30
    Jon Stark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Jon Stark


    JustTheOne wrote: »
    There is room for these people.

    It's been well documented they refuse because they have to refrain from drink and drugs in the hostels.

    Now in saying that maybe some of them haven't an addiction and choose for whatever reason not to stay there.

    There are hostels that allow alcohol but not drugs for obvious reasons. Unfortunately these type of hostels can be quite intimidating, so there are homeless people who would genuinely prefer to sleep rough that stay in such hostels.

    In relation to revellers passing by, most Homeless people sleeping rough prefer to be left alone, so it's just the media trying to manipulate people into feeling guilty. There's no need for it and actually deflects from the real problems.


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  • #31
    Menas
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    JustTheOne wrote: »
    There is room for these people.

    It's been well documented they refuse because they have to refrain from drink and drugs in the hostels.

    Now in saying that maybe some of them haven't an addiction and choose for whatever reason not to stay there.

    Many actually dont stay in hostels because of people injecting in there and they feel safer on the streets.


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