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Updated 11.27am
ENDA KENNY SPENT around three hours on the streets of Dublin last night talking to homeless men and women, it has emerged.
Kenny was out with Dublin Lord Mayor Christy Burke and the director of Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) Anthony Flynn to see first-hand the homelessness situation on Dublin’s streets.
The event was not publicised in advance and news of it only emerged when the ICCH issued a press release in the early hours of this morning.
ICHH said that Kenny joined them as they conducted their outreach programme on the city centre streets at around 11pm last night.
The Taoiseach was out until 2am as ICHH fed some 136 people around the Temple Bar and Grafton Street areas. He spoke to nearly two dozen people about their experiences.
“‘It was great to see the Taoiseach at the root of the problem, he got to see first-hand the conditions that people are living in on the streets,” Flynn said in a statement this morning.
“Myself, An Taoiseach and The Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke have agreed to actively work on finding a long term solution to the homeless problem.”
Burke revealed that the Taoiseach donned his thermals to take to the streets, telling reporters outside the Mansion House this morning:
“He had his woolly hat on and his jacket on and his scarf and he walked around and he fed people and he listened to people. He was saddened, I know. He is human like us all and you’d have to be made of stone not to be touched by what you see on the streets.”
A spokesperson for the Taoiseach confirmed he was out on the capital’s streets last night, saying Kenny felt it was important “to engage and hear their stories”.
“He was out until 2am. He was very moved by it, it was a cold night and he met with 23 people, chatted with them and spoke to them about their individual situations. He felt it was important to see first-hand the challenge of sleeping rough,” the spokesperson said.
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Let us hope the families finally get justice for what happened that terrible bloody Sunday.
Murdered by a foreign army on Irish soil…
@pat murphy: horse guards
If it was the case that the soldiers were given advance orders to shoot should they feel it was warranted then that order should be traced up the chain of command. I don’t believe it was a spur of the moment decision
@Brian Jones: I don’t think they needed to feel it was warranted. I was listening to an interview by one of the relatives the other day and he said that one of the soldiers that gave evidence to Saville said that he looked down the barrel of his gun but could see no justification for shooting so he didn’t pull the trigger. Others didn’t seem to care whether it was justified or not.
Will be amazed if these people receive justice, UK 2ont like to admit that it’s own army murdered people
@Barry Somers: agree , but every army murders people!
@Barry Somers: unlikely they will see justice, British soldiers, British courts, British jury…..
Had the pleasure of meeting with these wonderful people from Derry recently when they came to Dublin to support our fight for Justice for the Stardust 48.
We wish them all the best in their quest for Justice. As I have said before…. TRUTH+JUSTICE=PEACE
Give these families justice and peace enough is enough
Like all historic trouble related murders in N.Ireland, it’s time to let go of the past and move on to the future. All trouble related crimes on all sides committed before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement should be subject to a general amnesty. Nobody murdered on any side of the troubles is coming back. Death is a one way street, a shared future is a two way street. Let go of the past and move on to a better, brighter shared future.
@Charles Williams: Easier said than done Charles.
@Charles Williams What you say would make perfect sense but some scars will only begin to heal when everyone associated with them is dead and even then …
@Charles Williams:
The British army were never charged, imprisoned, admitted or apologised for their murders, so they’re not covered by the GFA – which also they were against.
And yet there are still people who were British blood stained poppies.
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