Cycled up Tara St this morning and looked over at Apollo House when I passed by the Poolbeg St junction. Didn't see many people (there was a man sticking up a sign to the railings), but all the lights were on and there was clearly a lot of activity in there (this was just before 7am).
When I heard who was involved in this 'initiative' I was cynical as hell about it. It smacked of Glenn and Bongo's annual Christmas eve Grafton St 'LOOK AT ME, AMN'T I GREAT' session.
But it seems there's a lot more to this, that work had been going on by less familiar names in the background and they were basically using Glenn and co for publicity (and it worked a treat).
So, yesterday, recievers for NAMA (cunts) filed for an injuction on behalf of the taxpayer (that's us btw) to clear all the homeless people back out onto the streets, claiming it's not safe in Apollo House (cos, yeah, the streets are mad safe).
ON OUR FUCKING BEHALF.
Waiting to see what comes of this, but I'm really hoping things come to a head in a big way. That people express the same anger about what our pack-of-cunts of a government (and several packs-of-cunts before them) have done (or failed to do) to cause the levels of homelessness we now have, as they did for water charges.
It won't happen though. Water charges affected everyone's pocket, that's why everyone got angry. Homelessness is someone else's problem, would be the prevailing attitude. And that's fucked up.
Anyway, not sure if that's a rant or not, but shur
When I heard who was involved in this 'initiative' I was cynical as hell about it. It smacked of Glenn and Bongo's annual Christmas eve Grafton St 'LOOK AT ME, AMN'T I GREAT' session.
But it seems there's a lot more to this, that work had been going on by less familiar names in the background and they were basically using Glenn and co for publicity (and it worked a treat).
So, yesterday, recievers for NAMA (cunts) filed for an injuction on behalf of the taxpayer (that's us btw) to clear all the homeless people back out onto the streets, claiming it's not safe in Apollo House (cos, yeah, the streets are mad safe).
ON OUR FUCKING BEHALF.
Waiting to see what comes of this, but I'm really hoping things come to a head in a big way. That people express the same anger about what our pack-of-cunts of a government (and several packs-of-cunts before them) have done (or failed to do) to cause the levels of homelessness we now have, as they did for water charges.
It won't happen though. Water charges affected everyone's pocket, that's why everyone got angry. Homelessness is someone else's problem, would be the prevailing attitude. And that's fucked up.
Anyway, not sure if that's a rant or not, but shur