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Updated at 10:55pm
A MAN WHO had been sleeping rough was found dead in Dublin city this morning, not far from where Jonathan Corrie was found dead last year.
This morning’s discovery was made at Dawson Lane.
Local businesses were informed, and gardaí were on the scene as people were arriving for work this morning.
A staff member at a local cafe in the area told TheJournal.ie that employees were used to homeless individuals sleeping nearby. They were told by gardaí this morning that the deceased was likely homeless.
Other people who sometimes sleep in the area confirmed today they knew the man, and that he had been sleeping rough in the laneway recently.
Pat Doyle, CEO of the Peter McVerry Trust, confirmed in a statement tonight that the deceased had been sleeping rough and was known to charity workers since December.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of another person who was sleeping rough in Dublin.
The young man had been engaging sporadically with the Focus Ireland Peter McVerry Trust Housing First Street Intake Team since December 2014 and we understand had accessed homeless services in Dublin in recent days.
The deceased was covered in a sheet this morning, as gardaí attended the scene.
The Garda Press Office confirmed there had been a death in the locality, and said it was not being treated as suspicious.
The man’s death took place just a few hundred yards from where Jonathan Corrie passed away in a doorway on Molesworth Street last December.
His death, its proximity to Leinster House and the public’s reaction led to the government to convening a special forum on homelessness before Christmas last year and a renewed public and government focus on the issue.
First published at 6:41pm
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always wear a seatbelt while seated on an airplane even at cruising altitude.
@Red hurley: totally agree I always reattach the seat belt every time for reasons like this
@Michael Hayden: knowing my luck that would happen just as I got up to go to the toilet
@Peter Cavey:
It would be worse if you were ON the toilet…mid-shlte.
@Peter Cavey: or in the jax. Pissing all over the place.
Clear Air Turbulence (not “Clean Air”)
Sounds like a terrible experience for all passengers on this flight.If i was on it they would have to send the lads in with full body suits and alot of cleaning products!!!
Terrified of flying so i can safely say i would pass out. I get nervous when they wheel the drink trolley around FFS. Poor children they must of been petrified. Some turbulence. Total carnage. Looked like a crash. What is it about flights around Asia Malaysia etc seems to always be very bad episodes of turbulence. Wouldn’t be flying on holiday anywhere near there. Spain is as far as i go and i need counselling before and after.
@Ní Maith Liom Eva: lived in Asia for years and in my experience landings coming into Ireland can match almost anywhere that I’ve flown into. Between Cork and Dublin I’ve had aborted landings, lightning strikes and two occasions where the whole plane fell deathly silent from the sheer volume of turbulence approaching the airport. Not to say that I’ve never had an incident in Asia but they are far less common, at least in my experience
@China Photo Daily: jeez really. Wow wouldn’t ever of thought that. That deathly silence. Oh fu(k I’d be passed out.
scary stuff
I hope Meredith Grey was on board
Sounds like a bit of an aero flop
Yesterday’s news
Russian plane in turbulence incident was Boeing 777 but this photo looks like Airbus 320 or 310. Journal.ie appears no knowledge of plane model….
Looks like a A320 the A300 series has a double bogie main landing gear, Up in the pointy end of the aircraft there is 5 point seat belts for the crew once in the cruise the shoulder and crotch belts are normally released but the strap across the waist is always kept on.
Good old Aeroflot!!
Couldn’t happen to nicer people
Climate change likely to increase frequency and severity of air turbulence http://www.independent.co.uk/Travel-0/climate-change-air-tubulence-increase-bumpier-flights-passenger-planes-commercial-carbon-dioxide-a7670481.html
Hard to know if there is more incidents of significant turbulence or are we just more well informed. Not a very enjoyable flight I’d say.
Russian plane in tur
Thats what can happen when you fly with a party of international competitors and put beans on the flight menu.
The International Flatulance Awards almost lost half the entrants.
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