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Fri 02 Feb 2009A place to call home for a night
It’s been a long hard winter for the homeless, and with the recession biting as well, there has been a sharp rise in the number of eastern Europeans living rough, reports Alison Healy
IT’S 10.40PM ON a cold Tuesday night and 18 people are huddled at the locked gates of an emergency night shelter in Dublin. The shelter does not open until 11pm, but each of these people is determined to lay claim to one of the 21 beds on offer. They stand in silence, waiting. A fracas breaks out involving a man who will later be refused entry because of his behaviour on the previous night.
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