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THE HOME SWEET Home group has now raised almost €160,000 as part of its campaign to combat homelessness in Ireland.
A GoFundMe page for Home Sweet Home, set up just two weeks ago, passed the €150,000 mark in recent days.
People have been donating amounts of between €5 and €100 to the group over the Christmas period.
“All your generous donations will be drawn down by the Irish Housing Network, who are one of the groups helping to run the Home Sweet Home campaign,” a message on the page says.
All donations will go directly towards the costs of running the current action, and any excess will go directly into a campaign that ends homelessness in Ireland.
Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, one of a number of high-profile figures backing the campaign, has said that excess funds may be donated to other charities.
Apollo House
Home Sweet Home, which was co-founded by high-profile anti-water charges activist and trade unionist Brendan Ogle, occupied Apollo House in Dublin on Thursday 15 December, and have been using the multi-storey building as an accommodation centre for the homeless.
The Irish Housing Network, a broad coalition of different far-left grassroots housing organisations, is one of the groups behind the occupation. Alongside Hansard, singer Hozier and film director Jim Sheridan, are also backing the effort.
The occupiers have been told by the High Court to vacate the building by 11 January. The order was granted after injunction proceedings were taken by receivers of the building, Mazars.
The group has been inundated with donations of food, clothes and other items since moving into Apollo House. About 70 people were served with Christmas dinner at the Tara Street building on Sunday. About 40 people slept there over the Christmas period.
In a Facebook post, Home Sweet Home said that from today they were looking for volunteers for their security, maintenance and cleaning and support teams.
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If Balour was Lú’s grandfather, who was his father?
Love my Sunday morning Irish lesson with my weekly cup of cuppachino.
An Lu Abu
Suimiúil, mar is gnáth. Buíochas, Darach.
Thought Baylor was killed by his son in law Cian
@Deirdre Frances: I thought that he succumbed to an unstoppable dose of diarrhoea which he acquired from listening to too much bullshite
@Deirdre Frances: You might have it a little backwards. Cian was killed by Balor because he got a little frisky with Balor’s young wan, Eithnu. The child of that coupling was Lú, who Balor then pegged into the sea only for Manandán the sea-God to raise him. He became king and lead an army against Balor where to hoofed a slingstone (or spear in other versions) through his head. When Balor fell dead his laser-eye opened and carved a hole through the earth which filled with water and became Loch na Súl in Sligo.
@John Mc Donagh: do you only get your above demonstrated type of verbal diarrhoea by thinking people still believe in this mythology as fact?
@Hawm Quinzy: thanks for the article and sound response …
The All Irelands go on all summer..but the finals are in September ..sorry if I doybd pedantic.
It may be Mythology… but isnt it fascinating reading even for the PBP, who are not really fior Gaels,….but Ton le Gaoithe…
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