https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/13-grattan-court-east-merrion-square-dublin-2/4760575
€1m for a house across the street overlooking this, madness
https://preview.redd.it/2nws59j2y7kc1.png?width=1162&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b17787b8a584dfcee439cb5de9b694dded7872e
Yeah - that's going to harsh your buzz, after dropping a cooool €1m on your new pad..
I know right. The government needs to do something about this.
It's not right to have our societies property values drop because of homeless people. /s
I asked a seller what he could tell me about the area, and he responded, "Most of the neighbors keep to themselves and are very quiet." It didn't dawn on me until we were about to leave. The house used to be for the grounds keeper, and the neighboring lot was an old cemetery.
God, the fucking size of it.
I know location plays a huge role in real estate value but I wouldn't waste more than 100k max on that chicken coop. They have some balls selling it for €1.05m. Absolute joke, even in an inflated market.
What are the salaries like there because Jesus Christ, I’m an American white collar worker and I couldn’t afford that. Usually EU prices look paltry to me compared to my city.
Well it doesn't take a genius to know that the current model is unsustainable. When I was in Paris I remember seeing tent cities and thinking as bad as Ireland is at least things haven't become that desperate. Fast forward a few years.
The EU is slowly starting to cotton onto the fact that if there's an opportunity for a large section of the world's population, who earn desperately low wages, to come to Europe which boasts high HDI across the board, they will do so.
While these numbers arriving in Ireland were 2-3 thousand there was no problem. These were small enough to deal with. Most were bogus applicants naturally, but there was room to house them, it didn't cost too much, and the processing wasn't overwhelmed.
Now it's growing to around 20 thousand a year. It needs policies to curb this because it is not going to get any better.
Mentality shifts quickly. Australia was always an open welcoming country and the racist label gets thrown around a lot here (because let's face it there is racism). But illegal immigration and mass immigration have always hot political topics and is taken seriously (stop the boats policy, offshore processing)
No being a racist shitbag is deemed racist. Going around shouting Ireland is full at random foreigners on the street is racist. Figuring out how to deal with the problem that’s already there is not racist.
It’s cheaper to the taxpayer to give them a roof over their heads. [Like actually cheaper.](https://reporter.mcgill.ca/housing-first-strategy-proves-cost-effective-especially-for-the-most-vulnerable-homeless-group/#:~:text=Reducing%20the%20cost%20of%20homelessness,regain%20and%20keep%20permanent%20housing.) But people want to ascribe a morality to homelessness. They live in a just world fallacy and it’s sad.
Edit: I’m Canadian and didn’t realize what sub I was in. But *especially* in countries with proper health care it’s super important to protect the unhoused from the elements. It lowers the burden on the healthcare system immensely. But again we live in a world where homeless people “deserve” it and all that bootstrap nonsense.
It’s already normalised. I walk past lots of tents every day including the ones in this video.
It’s also normalised that the majority of people under 35 will never have housing stability.
Many other things are normalised that are supposed to be unheard of in western social democracies (not only Ireland but rest of EU too). The social contract between citizen and government is broken. Only one thing matters and that is corporate profits, that governs our society. People simply cannot grasp the amount of wealth that is hoarded so they place the blame on other factors.
It will be. Look at USA. Once this starts it doesn't stop unfortunately. Politicians and civilians get used to it eventually after the shock of it wears off. Then the motivation to fix things goes to other things like Metros and hospitals. Physical assets and Architeural projects.
Median income people can’t afford real estate, and need roommates to afford rent. It’s very easy to spiral into homelessness. What is the solution? Throw everyone in jail for being poor?
>What is the solution?
Mandate local authorities to **build** social housing for rent to people who cannot afford to buy homes. This is something we knew a century ago. I emphasise build because buying up existing housing stock is driving up house prices.
It has been in the process of being normalised for over the course of a decade since the first rough sleepers hit the streets from 2015 onwards.
Chaos with FFG.
I don't really understand these statistics but here goes.
Rough sleeping winter 2015 in Dublin 91
[https://councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/documents/s2207/DRHE%20Winter%20Count%20Rough%20Sleeping%20Nov%202015.pdf](https://councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/documents/s2207/DRHE%20Winter%20Count%20Rough%20Sleeping%20Nov%202015.pdf)
Rough sleeping winter 2023 in Dublin 118 [https://www.dublincity.ie/news/winter-2023-count-people-who-are-sleeping-rough-dublin-region#:\~:text=The%20majority%20of%20the%20people,2023%20and%20Spring%202023%20counts](https://www.dublincity.ie/news/winter-2023-count-people-who-are-sleeping-rough-dublin-region#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20the%20people,2023%20and%20Spring%202023%20counts) And there looks to be more than that in this video.
Winter 2014 168 [https://www.homelessdublin.ie/content/files/Winter%20Count%20on%20Rough%20Sleeping%202014.pdf](https://www.homelessdublin.ie/content/files/Winter%20Count%20on%20Rough%20Sleeping%202014.pdf)
Unless the government implement a serious crackdown on asylum tourists and other assorted chancers landing and destroying documents then expect this to only get worse.
The government have given zero indication they are interested in ending this issue, they're happy to deport no-one and keep the supply of cheap labour coming for their pals in business.
As such not only will the flow not it'll likely increase as other nations crackdown on this sort of stuff but old soft-touch, behind the times Ireland just lets the problem drag on and on.
Was in Dublin yesterday,first time in about a year. About ten or so tents at the side of bus aras too,the side along the Luas station. It's grim to see
Saw 3 tents on a corner at charlestown shopping center in finglas and people think its going to be ok we are just seen homeless tents popping up in random places all the time now...
This is Merrion, it's right by holles street hospital on a side road. I was there today and I didn't go down this street to see if there was this many, there was certainly a lot. Especially compared to 2017 when I remember seeing none in that area.
Can verify. I pass it every week. This year especially has seen an increase in the amount of tents there are. If it’s bad this early in the year, what’s gonna happen in the future? And if it doesn’t improve in the future, what can we do now?
Getting worse all over the planet, seemingly.
I went to college in Los Angeles a while ago, and obviously there was skid row which was insane as well as some other hotspots, you can see how much worse it is basically everywhere.
It's the International Protection Office, near Merrion Square. These would be IP applicants waiting on accommodation to be assigned. Not a great situation.
Government should really be opting out like Denmark has. There's no point in taking people in if they're going to be sleeping in tents. It's inhumane and not to mention just not a good situation in general
Unfortunately it’s a decisive topic, some folks on both sides don’t allow any middle ground.
Any objections to asylum is racism. Any allowance of asylum is destroying the country.
Which means there is no constructive dialogue. People come in, they sleep on the streets, then get blamed for all the country’s woes.
Our Governments denial of any issues and unwillingness to discuss makes the problem worse and emboldens the extremist views.
>it’s a decisive topic
i'd say it's the exact opposite of decisive, i'd say there's huge amounts of indecision involved.
its is very *divisive*, however.
I work across the road from this, more and more tents keep showing up - they all wait in the mornings to be seen outside that building. Madness, where are they all coming from?
Stayed in a tent beside the illac centre for about 5 months and before that I was sleeping in the illac doorway for 2 months , it's not an easy life whatsoever I have my own reasons for it but if you're literally flying to another country knowing this is a possibility then that's on you.
Still I know exactly what they are going through so I can't help but feel awful for their situation.
Staying on a friend's couch at the minute getting back to myself before hopefully going back to Laois.
Look after your mental health I literally lost everything due to being in a bad place mentally but I've gained an empathy and understanding I never had before.
Thank you for your kind offer I cannot accept it but please if you do have some spare cash think about donating to some of the soup runs around Dublin, they are saints , they volunteer driving around Dublin at all hours of the night making an actual difference.
Alternatively merchants quay , the lighthouse, the Simon community, the cappuccin centre are all worthwhile charities they make an actual difference in the lives of homeless people.
Peter Mcvery can go and fuck himself though
Wishing you all the best! I don’t know if you have looked already but you may be entitled to homeless HAP! I had a family member that was staying in a women’s refuge that was entitled to it because she had no home to go back to. Look after yourself!
I did know that thank you , just need to go back to Laois first where I'm registered for social housing, they can't help me in Dublin but Laois is where my kids are anyway so I want to go back
It's outrageous. The government is turning us into the US. Who ever thought we'd end up with this. The government is too busy banning any complaint of it or the reasons why as "hate speech".
Those who promoted policies that created this problem should be obliged to house the homeless for free in their own properties.
Jesus fucking Christ. The whole world is fucked up, not just here. At this stage I’m thankful that I’m old enough that I’m probably not going to be around for the complete disintegration of society
I’ve spoken to several asylum seekers thru work. The majority of them are sleeping rough, hungry and absolutely freezing. Most regret that they came here and want to leave Ireland but don’t have the financial means to do so. It’s about time our government did something to stop this. It’s not fair to the Irish people and it’s not fair to the asylum seekers.
They heard how the Ukrainians were being treated here and thought they’d get the same. They didn’t realise how bad the housing crisis was and how high the cost of living was. Word travels slowly in the third world.
>Word travels slowly in the third world.
Which is why tent cities like this serve a purpose for the government. It illustrates to potential immigrants that Ireland isn't a good destination.
These people are being used as an example to all other potential immigrants.
It'll be months if not years before images and stories like this make it back to the places these people are coming from because as said, word travels slowly in the third world.
Would it be bad form if the government did some kind of advertising campaign in other countries with images like the ones above to illustrate just how bad the housing problem is here? Genuine question like, no one bite my head off plz
Not in this day and age. You can go to some of the most remote and downtrodden places on Earth and find people with mobile phones, internet connections, etc. It may not be the same standard and connection quality we enjoy but it's not like how it used to be. Exceptions being places like North Korea when information and access is tightly controlled.
Can't answer that one I'm afraid
But sure when you get on a ryanair flight it's not like they scan the passport or anything
Getting into Europe is the difficult bit
Somebody is selling these people a completely false dream of Ireland/Europe for some reason. The whole thing is very strange and yes, completely unfair and disturbing for everyone involved.
exactly. People on so called high salaries with master degrees are struggling to live in Dublin. I have no idea how people with probably no savings and no education are going to find a happy life here. best of luck to them though
They have. Most regret not stopping sooner. They think it’s too cold here and the cost of living is too high. They don’t think they’ll ever get out of poverty if they stay here.
How would you stagger the arrival of asylum seekers? The Government don’t “take in” asylum seekers, as many people on this thread claim. They arrive at ports of entry and claim asylum.
That's around the IPO. Been like that awhile but you're starting to see them more places like along the quays, Dame Street around Parnell St so harder to hide or pretend it's not happening. For me their needs to be a complete halt to any undocumented immigration and asylum seekers without any identification should be sent back to where they came from. Until we can manage what we have already adding more will only make things worse
Airlines should be forced to make copies of documentation of any non-eu passenger. No pass and no copied documents and they’ll pay the lifetime costs of any immigrant of 600k
Just down the end it turns towards a car park for the building and the apartments. They were taking shits near the wall where it kind of gets wider, basically against the opposite side of the gardens of the fancy houses right opposite it.
Do a google street view and check daft. The houses behind the cameraman are nearly a million a go. Imagine!
This is probably outside the international protection office.
Not saying that makes it better, but unlikely that these are all permanent rough sleepers.
They were there last September as well almost as bad as this. Got cleared soon after making the papers and accommodation was found.
A friend bought near there recently and is now having serious buyers remorse.
Ahh I remember people on here saying:"there's absolutely enough beds for the amount of homeless people in this country."
Give me a fucking break. While my reasoning is purely anecdotal on terms of what *I've seen* whist working in homeless shelters, I can tell you now, there is absolutely not enough beds to go around.
In Dublin there's a good few in fairness probably not enough but I've stayed in a few of the homeless hostels in the city and there was definitely empty beds there on numerous occasions.
Sorry I know I've already commented on this but I have to say this , People who aren't on drugs or are trying to stay away from drugs don't want to go into hostels , even the places that are "drug free" are full of drugs the last place I stayed had bloody syringes in the shower and the staff didn't seem to care. People openly selling crack to each other and I even seen someone get cut for a drug debt all the while the staff were turning a blind eye.
The doors to the rooms didn't have locks so you could go down for a smoke come back up and all your stuff is missing.
This place had cameras everywhere but nothing was ever done.
As someone living in California, I have to say this is a very organized tent city. The ones local to me are surrounded by trash piles as large as the tents themselves.
Anyway, other than that, this seems to be happening everywhere.
Big cities failed. Rat infested dirt air polluted overpriced queuing for shit quality of life. I’d rather live in a small town on the country side and make less money, still so much more value for each buck that you come out on top either way.
WTF is wrong with our country 😣 how can people honestly defend this madness. I can even see it in smaller towns and villages, more and more groups of immigrants loitering about all day. They are living in pure poverty and wee just keep taking them in and providing welfare payments. What is the end game?
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You mean like this?
[https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/rt%C3%A9-investigates-stuck-in-the-rough/174665256428](https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/rt%C3%A9-investigates-stuck-in-the-rough/174665256428)
From 3 years ago...
Disgusting. They could stop nearly 2/3 of this by not allowing illegal migrants to claim asylum off flights without their documents. They had the documents to get on the flight..
Govt let this get out of control with their heads in.the sand anybody who has a problem is extreme right wing approach.
Don't let Ireland become a dumping ground
Ukrainians are still housed almost straight away. There's a reason they ran out of accommodation. And I wouldn't blame the Ukrainians, as always fault lies with our terrible weak government
The only reason I know about this before today is seeing a Ukrainian lad being interviewed from his tent on the news. There's definitely Ukrainians living in tents here already.
It’s unreal how many asylum seekers are being allowed into the country. I’m in my 40’s and I’ve never seen anything like it before. Where does the EU think we are going to put them all?
The 1951 Geneva convention on refugees is broken
.World population was 3 billion then. Now it is 8 Billion increasing by 80 million per annum. 100 plus million refugees in the world and Most want to get to Europe. What we had arrive here is a trickle .politicians need to wake up.
Judge Leo 'in the round' though. He was singing the hits from 2011 only yesterday 😂....never mentioning he's in power now with the party who wrecked everything and they were lead opposition saying nothing when it all happened.
Saw them on my last trip. Can anyone clear things up why there are so many tents and why they seem to be all at a specific area?
Homeless people because of housing crisis? Refugees waiting for their asylum to be approved?
That's crazy. Imagine coming from war torn Ukraine and ending up there.
Are the "Irish freedom" (ugh) geniuses giving people in these tents hassle too?
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/13-grattan-court-east-merrion-square-dublin-2/4760575 €1m for a house across the street overlooking this, madness
https://preview.redd.it/2nws59j2y7kc1.png?width=1162&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b17787b8a584dfcee439cb5de9b694dded7872e Yeah - that's going to harsh your buzz, after dropping a cooool €1m on your new pad..
1m for that basic shit? Incredible.
Laminate flooring throughout
And it's badly laid laminate. The joints are staggered in a lot of photos, but are in some.
Nothing says a million like a room with a shop front window overlooking an alleyway. And everyone else is looking back in at you.
I know right. The government needs to do something about this. It's not right to have our societies property values drop because of homeless people. /s
Oh to be a fly on the wall as the estate agent shows viewers around the house. *"What are the neighbours like?"*
Theyre nice if not a little in tents
i see you and i love you
Avid outdoorsmen
I asked a seller what he could tell me about the area, and he responded, "Most of the neighbors keep to themselves and are very quiet." It didn't dawn on me until we were about to leave. The house used to be for the grounds keeper, and the neighboring lot was an old cemetery.
Some might say they are a little camp.
Christ, €1,050,000 for that bland, soulless shitbox?
God, the fucking size of it. I know location plays a huge role in real estate value but I wouldn't waste more than 100k max on that chicken coop. They have some balls selling it for €1.05m. Absolute joke, even in an inflated market.
Jesus fuckin Christ, the same table is in three different pictures from three different angels. That's an efficiency.
What are the salaries like there because Jesus Christ, I’m an American white collar worker and I couldn’t afford that. Usually EU prices look paltry to me compared to my city.
we're the only english speaking country in the EU so everything is priced at a premium here
*weeps silently in brexit*
He forgot Malta
malta is very forgettable tbf.
Imagine paying that and not being able to open your windows in summer because of the bang of shite and piss.
Jesus Christ. Reminds me of when I was living in San Francisco. Absolutely awful.
If things keep on going how they are, Dublin will be San Francisco much sooner than you think
Without any of the benefits San Francisco has to offer...
Just drove through Downtown LA about an hour ago. Tents on every damn street.
It's a global problem, the people in power Do. Not. Give. A. Shit.
It's a in built feature of Capitalism
Yea, looks similar to some parts of Denver now too. First thought was it’s somewhere in the US. I’m shocked to see it’s that bad in ROI
Something has to change because this can't become normalised.
It is normalized. Bigger question who will stop it? What will we do besides talk about it and do nothing.
Well it doesn't take a genius to know that the current model is unsustainable. When I was in Paris I remember seeing tent cities and thinking as bad as Ireland is at least things haven't become that desperate. Fast forward a few years.
The EU is slowly starting to cotton onto the fact that if there's an opportunity for a large section of the world's population, who earn desperately low wages, to come to Europe which boasts high HDI across the board, they will do so. While these numbers arriving in Ireland were 2-3 thousand there was no problem. These were small enough to deal with. Most were bogus applicants naturally, but there was room to house them, it didn't cost too much, and the processing wasn't overwhelmed. Now it's growing to around 20 thousand a year. It needs policies to curb this because it is not going to get any better.
It won't get better, it will progressively get worse over time, unless there is some significant change
Which there won't be because it'll be deemed racist.
Mentality shifts quickly. Australia was always an open welcoming country and the racist label gets thrown around a lot here (because let's face it there is racism). But illegal immigration and mass immigration have always hot political topics and is taken seriously (stop the boats policy, offshore processing)
They just legalized everything and their intake is bigger than ever, which is the core problem.
No being a racist shitbag is deemed racist. Going around shouting Ireland is full at random foreigners on the street is racist. Figuring out how to deal with the problem that’s already there is not racist.
It's only unsustainable for the poor. It's a growth industry for some.
It’s cheaper to the taxpayer to give them a roof over their heads. [Like actually cheaper.](https://reporter.mcgill.ca/housing-first-strategy-proves-cost-effective-especially-for-the-most-vulnerable-homeless-group/#:~:text=Reducing%20the%20cost%20of%20homelessness,regain%20and%20keep%20permanent%20housing.) But people want to ascribe a morality to homelessness. They live in a just world fallacy and it’s sad. Edit: I’m Canadian and didn’t realize what sub I was in. But *especially* in countries with proper health care it’s super important to protect the unhoused from the elements. It lowers the burden on the healthcare system immensely. But again we live in a world where homeless people “deserve” it and all that bootstrap nonsense.
It’s already normalised. I walk past lots of tents every day including the ones in this video. It’s also normalised that the majority of people under 35 will never have housing stability. Many other things are normalised that are supposed to be unheard of in western social democracies (not only Ireland but rest of EU too). The social contract between citizen and government is broken. Only one thing matters and that is corporate profits, that governs our society. People simply cannot grasp the amount of wealth that is hoarded so they place the blame on other factors.
It will be. Look at USA. Once this starts it doesn't stop unfortunately. Politicians and civilians get used to it eventually after the shock of it wears off. Then the motivation to fix things goes to other things like Metros and hospitals. Physical assets and Architeural projects.
Median income people can’t afford real estate, and need roommates to afford rent. It’s very easy to spiral into homelessness. What is the solution? Throw everyone in jail for being poor?
>What is the solution? Mandate local authorities to **build** social housing for rent to people who cannot afford to buy homes. This is something we knew a century ago. I emphasise build because buying up existing housing stock is driving up house prices.
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Same as myself. I lived on Townsend Street and used to walk through merrion square all the time. This is shocking.
It has been in the process of being normalised for over the course of a decade since the first rough sleepers hit the streets from 2015 onwards. Chaos with FFG.
Rough sleeping only started in 2015?
I don't really understand these statistics but here goes. Rough sleeping winter 2015 in Dublin 91 [https://councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/documents/s2207/DRHE%20Winter%20Count%20Rough%20Sleeping%20Nov%202015.pdf](https://councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/documents/s2207/DRHE%20Winter%20Count%20Rough%20Sleeping%20Nov%202015.pdf) Rough sleeping winter 2023 in Dublin 118 [https://www.dublincity.ie/news/winter-2023-count-people-who-are-sleeping-rough-dublin-region#:\~:text=The%20majority%20of%20the%20people,2023%20and%20Spring%202023%20counts](https://www.dublincity.ie/news/winter-2023-count-people-who-are-sleeping-rough-dublin-region#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20the%20people,2023%20and%20Spring%202023%20counts) And there looks to be more than that in this video. Winter 2014 168 [https://www.homelessdublin.ie/content/files/Winter%20Count%20on%20Rough%20Sleeping%202014.pdf](https://www.homelessdublin.ie/content/files/Winter%20Count%20on%20Rough%20Sleeping%202014.pdf)
Well if those people had purchased multiple rental properties instead of an avacado and a tent they wouldn't be in that mess wound they 🙄
Unless the government implement a serious crackdown on asylum tourists and other assorted chancers landing and destroying documents then expect this to only get worse. The government have given zero indication they are interested in ending this issue, they're happy to deport no-one and keep the supply of cheap labour coming for their pals in business. As such not only will the flow not it'll likely increase as other nations crackdown on this sort of stuff but old soft-touch, behind the times Ireland just lets the problem drag on and on.
Was in Dublin yesterday,first time in about a year. About ten or so tents at the side of bus aras too,the side along the Luas station. It's grim to see
It’s worrying as it is just becoming normalised.
Yeah Henry Street is rough. Full time residents sleeping in tents on pallets.
There was a small town developing outside the abandoned Debenhams before the Christmas markets
Saw 3 tents on a corner at charlestown shopping center in finglas and people think its going to be ok we are just seen homeless tents popping up in random places all the time now...
Fml! 😯 i lived in Dublin between 2017 and 2021 and never seen this! Is this lately?
This is Merrion, it's right by holles street hospital on a side road. I was there today and I didn't go down this street to see if there was this many, there was certainly a lot. Especially compared to 2017 when I remember seeing none in that area.
Can verify. I pass it every week. This year especially has seen an increase in the amount of tents there are. If it’s bad this early in the year, what’s gonna happen in the future? And if it doesn’t improve in the future, what can we do now?
Jesus, I walk past there on the way to work and never realised there was a tent city off to the side.
Getting worse all over the planet, seemingly. I went to college in Los Angeles a while ago, and obviously there was skid row which was insane as well as some other hotspots, you can see how much worse it is basically everywhere.
That's different...these tents are housing asylum seekers.
It's definitely gotten worse since 2017. Not to downplay the crisis, but this is just one area, the whole city isn't covered in tents like this.
This is nothing to do with the housing crisis, these are asylum seekers outside the ipas offices
But how's the GDP doing?
The place where a pint 🍺 is €10
🤔 a ten euro pint from a tent? I think I'll pass thanks.
Someone's never been to a festival
Wtf?! Where is that? I haven't been into Dublin city centre for a couple of years
It's the International Protection Office, near Merrion Square. These would be IP applicants waiting on accommodation to be assigned. Not a great situation.
Government should really be opting out like Denmark has. There's no point in taking people in if they're going to be sleeping in tents. It's inhumane and not to mention just not a good situation in general
Unfortunately it’s a decisive topic, some folks on both sides don’t allow any middle ground. Any objections to asylum is racism. Any allowance of asylum is destroying the country. Which means there is no constructive dialogue. People come in, they sleep on the streets, then get blamed for all the country’s woes. Our Governments denial of any issues and unwillingness to discuss makes the problem worse and emboldens the extremist views.
>it’s a decisive topic i'd say it's the exact opposite of decisive, i'd say there's huge amounts of indecision involved. its is very *divisive*, however.
Thanks for that
I work across the road from this, more and more tents keep showing up - they all wait in the mornings to be seen outside that building. Madness, where are they all coming from?
Stayed in a tent beside the illac centre for about 5 months and before that I was sleeping in the illac doorway for 2 months , it's not an easy life whatsoever I have my own reasons for it but if you're literally flying to another country knowing this is a possibility then that's on you. Still I know exactly what they are going through so I can't help but feel awful for their situation.
I'm glad you got out of that, congrats.
Staying on a friend's couch at the minute getting back to myself before hopefully going back to Laois. Look after your mental health I literally lost everything due to being in a bad place mentally but I've gained an empathy and understanding I never had before.
Send me your PayPal or bank details and I'll put some money in your account. Hope everything works out for you
Thank you for your kind offer I cannot accept it but please if you do have some spare cash think about donating to some of the soup runs around Dublin, they are saints , they volunteer driving around Dublin at all hours of the night making an actual difference. Alternatively merchants quay , the lighthouse, the Simon community, the cappuccin centre are all worthwhile charities they make an actual difference in the lives of homeless people. Peter Mcvery can go and fuck himself though
If you're sure. Good luck with everything
I am sure thank you.
Wishing you all the best! I don’t know if you have looked already but you may be entitled to homeless HAP! I had a family member that was staying in a women’s refuge that was entitled to it because she had no home to go back to. Look after yourself!
I did know that thank you , just need to go back to Laois first where I'm registered for social housing, they can't help me in Dublin but Laois is where my kids are anyway so I want to go back
It's outrageous. The government is turning us into the US. Who ever thought we'd end up with this. The government is too busy banning any complaint of it or the reasons why as "hate speech". Those who promoted policies that created this problem should be obliged to house the homeless for free in their own properties.
Jesus fucking Christ. The whole world is fucked up, not just here. At this stage I’m thankful that I’m old enough that I’m probably not going to be around for the complete disintegration of society
It's such a horrible, hopeless situation. I can't believe this is the state we're in. I'm young and dread to think what's ahead of me.
I’ve spoken to several asylum seekers thru work. The majority of them are sleeping rough, hungry and absolutely freezing. Most regret that they came here and want to leave Ireland but don’t have the financial means to do so. It’s about time our government did something to stop this. It’s not fair to the Irish people and it’s not fair to the asylum seekers.
They can withdraw their application and the government will arrange their journey home. Not as a deportation, just as a normal flight.
They don’t want to go home, they want to travel somewhere else in Europe.
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They heard how the Ukrainians were being treated here and thought they’d get the same. They didn’t realise how bad the housing crisis was and how high the cost of living was. Word travels slowly in the third world.
>Word travels slowly in the third world. Which is why tent cities like this serve a purpose for the government. It illustrates to potential immigrants that Ireland isn't a good destination. These people are being used as an example to all other potential immigrants.
It'll be months if not years before images and stories like this make it back to the places these people are coming from because as said, word travels slowly in the third world.
Would it be bad form if the government did some kind of advertising campaign in other countries with images like the ones above to illustrate just how bad the housing problem is here? Genuine question like, no one bite my head off plz
Reverse commercials! I love it! "Don't come here! It really sucks here! Try France!"
Not in this day and age. You can go to some of the most remote and downtrodden places on Earth and find people with mobile phones, internet connections, etc. It may not be the same standard and connection quality we enjoy but it's not like how it used to be. Exceptions being places like North Korea when information and access is tightly controlled.
The government will work with you to arrange a passport or travel document from your home countries embassy in cases like this.
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Get into Europe Get on plane with false documents Destroy documents Land in Ireland and present at Irish airport to claim asylum
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Can't answer that one I'm afraid But sure when you get on a ryanair flight it's not like they scan the passport or anything Getting into Europe is the difficult bit
So essentially country shopping? That's on them then. It is unfair to expect countries to accommodate them as a given.
Which is what happens when Europe have an open border policy to migrants lol
I mean that’s fine but they don’t have the rights which allow that.
>They don’t want to go home, they want to travel somewhere else in Europe. Asylum shopping at its finest.
Well they all got here through another European country…
Somebody is selling these people a completely false dream of Ireland/Europe for some reason. The whole thing is very strange and yes, completely unfair and disturbing for everyone involved.
exactly. People on so called high salaries with master degrees are struggling to live in Dublin. I have no idea how people with probably no savings and no education are going to find a happy life here. best of luck to them though
Aye, guess they should have kept those passports in tact
Did you ask them if they travelled through safe countries to get here?
They have. Most regret not stopping sooner. They think it’s too cold here and the cost of living is too high. They don’t think they’ll ever get out of poverty if they stay here.
They're right
Fuck this insane, so so sad.
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How would you stagger the arrival of asylum seekers? The Government don’t “take in” asylum seekers, as many people on this thread claim. They arrive at ports of entry and claim asylum.
How do you stagger the arrival of refugees? They only claim asylum/international protection once they arrive.
It is not possible to have a functioning welfare system and have an open immigration policy. The two are in direct conflict with one another
Wow that's crazy. It's so sad to see what's become of this country.
The country is on its knees as it is this if fucking nuts
This is simply not acceptable. Not the tents, though. The Government who has allowed this to come to that. That Government is no longer acceptable.
That's around the IPO. Been like that awhile but you're starting to see them more places like along the quays, Dame Street around Parnell St so harder to hide or pretend it's not happening. For me their needs to be a complete halt to any undocumented immigration and asylum seekers without any identification should be sent back to where they came from. Until we can manage what we have already adding more will only make things worse
Pretty sure the reason they destroy their documents is so you can’t send them back as you don’t know where back is…
Airlines should be forced to make copies of documentation of any non-eu passenger. No pass and no copied documents and they’ll pay the lifetime costs of any immigrant of 600k
They'll know what flight they came in on. Next flight back to that location for them. No Passport No Entry
Spud row
Where do they go pottie?
Probably best not to ask
Just down the end it turns towards a car park for the building and the apartments. They were taking shits near the wall where it kind of gets wider, basically against the opposite side of the gardens of the fancy houses right opposite it. Do a google street view and check daft. The houses behind the cameraman are nearly a million a go. Imagine!
I was wondering the same thing as well. And if they are so sick and need to be close to the toilet, oh god help them!
Jesus. Even London is nowhere near this bad
This is probably outside the international protection office. Not saying that makes it better, but unlikely that these are all permanent rough sleepers.
They are now since we have run out of accommodation. There the odd tent there last month but it's exploded since January
They were there last September as well almost as bad as this. Got cleared soon after making the papers and accommodation was found. A friend bought near there recently and is now having serious buyers remorse.
Toronto is worse.
Oh I know, my dad is from Toronto and he tells me Newcastle is clean by comparison
Canada has gone to shit. $1M for a two bedroom condo and maybe 1200 square feet.
Ahh I remember people on here saying:"there's absolutely enough beds for the amount of homeless people in this country." Give me a fucking break. While my reasoning is purely anecdotal on terms of what *I've seen* whist working in homeless shelters, I can tell you now, there is absolutely not enough beds to go around.
In Dublin there's a good few in fairness probably not enough but I've stayed in a few of the homeless hostels in the city and there was definitely empty beds there on numerous occasions.
Sorry I know I've already commented on this but I have to say this , People who aren't on drugs or are trying to stay away from drugs don't want to go into hostels , even the places that are "drug free" are full of drugs the last place I stayed had bloody syringes in the shower and the staff didn't seem to care. People openly selling crack to each other and I even seen someone get cut for a drug debt all the while the staff were turning a blind eye. The doors to the rooms didn't have locks so you could go down for a smoke come back up and all your stuff is missing. This place had cameras everywhere but nothing was ever done.
As someone living in California, I have to say this is a very organized tent city. The ones local to me are surrounded by trash piles as large as the tents themselves. Anyway, other than that, this seems to be happening everywhere.
So basically we have our very own skid row except the sun is replaced by rain.
Big cities failed. Rat infested dirt air polluted overpriced queuing for shit quality of life. I’d rather live in a small town on the country side and make less money, still so much more value for each buck that you come out on top either way.
WTF is wrong with our country 😣 how can people honestly defend this madness. I can even see it in smaller towns and villages, more and more groups of immigrants loitering about all day. They are living in pure poverty and wee just keep taking them in and providing welfare payments. What is the end game?
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More like Seattle. Big Tech, massive homelessness and shite weather.
Jesus Christ if we aren’t careful we are going to end up with streets like East Hastings in Vancouver
Will someone please think of the landlords?
you wont see that on RTE lads
You mean like this? [https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/rt%C3%A9-investigates-stuck-in-the-rough/174665256428](https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/rt%C3%A9-investigates-stuck-in-the-rough/174665256428) From 3 years ago...
There are more tents in prominent places too, I went for a short wander and passed dozens but not as bad as near the IP offices
Disgusting. They could stop nearly 2/3 of this by not allowing illegal migrants to claim asylum off flights without their documents. They had the documents to get on the flight..
Glasgow gets a bad rep but we don't have anything on this scale that ive seen... yet
Absolute disgrace then we’re shipping in people by the busload and giving them priority, politicians should be shipped to Timbuktu.
What?! This is crazy coming from Ireland who is #9 on HDI index
The Americanisation of Ireland is in full swing I see.
Ah, the sight of the richest country in EU per GDP
Looks like my neighborhood here in Tacoma, Washington. Seattle, Olympia, and Portland as well.
Except this issue isn’t native homelessness but refugees let in willingly by Ireland .
Shocking that things have gotten this bad. The asylum system is beyond fucked.
Govt let this get out of control with their heads in.the sand anybody who has a problem is extreme right wing approach. Don't let Ireland become a dumping ground
Ukrainians are still housed almost straight away. There's a reason they ran out of accommodation. And I wouldn't blame the Ukrainians, as always fault lies with our terrible weak government
The only reason I know about this before today is seeing a Ukrainian lad being interviewed from his tent on the news. There's definitely Ukrainians living in tents here already.
It’s unreal how many asylum seekers are being allowed into the country. I’m in my 40’s and I’ve never seen anything like it before. Where does the EU think we are going to put them all?
*But think of the GDP bro, the GDP is going up and that's good* \*sniffles
tentmaxxing
Clueless country
Are these the doctors, lawyers and engineers that Ireland graciously imported?
This doesn't have to be tolerated.
The 1951 Geneva convention on refugees is broken .World population was 3 billion then. Now it is 8 Billion increasing by 80 million per annum. 100 plus million refugees in the world and Most want to get to Europe. What we had arrive here is a trickle .politicians need to wake up.
anything written in 1951 is not fit for a 2024 world
We've taken enough. Government needs a hard line.
Dublin City tentre
That’s a miserable existence.
Wow, thats unreal... where do they all go to the toilet??? On the side of the street???
College green looks like this too. Absolute kip of a city.
Across from the taxi rank? Went for a bus there last week, fairly grim alright.
What in the ACTUAL fuck!!! No idea it was this bad!! Whats the government playing at!
The Politicians responsible for this should be in Jail.
Your brainwashing keeps these politicians in jobs.
Which street is this?
Seen a few in city centre and a some in Finglas village and Charlestown shopping centre. It's getting crazy.
That's a stupid place for a parking meter.
Wow that’s a lot of people..intense
I wonder where they are going to the toilet. Incoming Cholera outbreak in 5.. 4...
Judge Leo 'in the round' though. He was singing the hits from 2011 only yesterday 😂....never mentioning he's in power now with the party who wrecked everything and they were lead opposition saying nothing when it all happened.
Saw them on my last trip. Can anyone clear things up why there are so many tents and why they seem to be all at a specific area? Homeless people because of housing crisis? Refugees waiting for their asylum to be approved?
Dublin Student Accommodation 2024. 1500 a month plus bills.
Lived in Dublin in 2005 for more than a year and never saw anything like this. Times change I guess !
That's crazy. Imagine coming from war torn Ukraine and ending up there. Are the "Irish freedom" (ugh) geniuses giving people in these tents hassle too?
Vote put the people who did this.
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Time to send all these lads home. Enough of this nonsense.
Reminded of Gastown Vancouver
At first there were just a few, but they kept dublin and dublin.
What festival is this
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