Asylum seekers endure sub-zero temperatures on Dublin streets without tents or sleeping bags. Source: The Journal. Comment: Wind storms rage, freezing cold spells abound, the rain is in torrents. Ireland, we know our homeless; if you live in the City you know the familiar faces and you can help a little and you know they are aware of places like McVerry Trust, Alice Leahy, Sr. Stan but to arrive in Ireland at this time, as an asylum seeker battered by wars of attrition, starvation, then the interrogation and to find yourself in a tent on a cold street in Dublin is a blight too far especially in a country that has so many derelict properties.

Out in the Cold Asylum seekers endure sub-zero temperatures on Dublin streets without tents or sleeping bags ‘Acute accommodation shortage’

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