Weak bro, very weak.
The child in the pic is in emergency accomodation according to the charity that posted the image. Emergency accomodation is not a home and as his mother is not allowed to cook there and wants to give him something somewhat nutritious, that’s how they end up eating on the streets.
It’s a very sad state of affairs, and if people here have no sympathy for this poor child and his mother, they have no fucking heart at all.
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But there are points to be scored on the internet!!!
I agree wholeheartedly with your post
One for the things I learned today thread
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There’s nothing like throwing up a simple picture here that highlights inequality in Irish society — it drives lads absolutely demented. @carryharry will be on about welfare layabouts - we will have @maroonandwhite on taking the piss out of a inner city Dub accent — @Horsebox will defend TDs to the hilt and @Tim_Riggins will compare Ireland to countless other irrelevant countries to gloss over the issue …
It’s fascinating to watch — a poor child eating off the ground and lads go into attack mode.
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He’s a beggar … he should be stoned to death.
There are lads here who were no doubt celebrating the sickening murder of that poor homeless man in Cork last weekend
You’re stoned to death on that shite Cark weed
That was sickening, it absolutely rocked me. Imagine what was going through that poor man’s head at the end of his life, what were his final thoughts. It would bring you to tears and shake your faith in humanity. What’s the point of it all.
And what did you do? If it shook you so, and that post sounds like it was a life changing event for you, which is fair, it should be, what did you do? Anything more than posting about it on here or social media? Did you petition a local politician? Did you make a donation to a charity, like the Cork Penny Dinners? Something? Anything?
What did you do?
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I donted our quarterly team budget to Cork penny dinners last week actually … i’ll also be leading the Christmas drive here in work for food donations for penny dinners again this year.
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Good for you pal, thats a very noble response. But I expected that from you, I may not always agree with your politics, but I admire your belief in them and your desire to get involved.
I’m curious as to what the other fella did. What did the event move him to do.
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Irrelevant countries like other Western, social democratic, ones?
Sad to see the usual suspects celebrating the sickening murder of a homeless man
The homelessness industry in Ireland has lots of cash.
And lots of administrators.
If you want to stop rough sleeping you’re better off putting money into mental health charities and supporting political parties that have policies for needle clinics.
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I’d have some time for Penny Dinners and Portlaoise Action Towards Homelessness (PATH), but your point does stand.
Fine Gael does indeed have a lot of cash
Exactly.
The trivialization of this issue by the usual suspects is something else.
Meanwhile house prices have stabalised and we are seeing some excellent dense residential projects coming up.
Murphys politicies starting to work.
Disappointing that despite the council no longer being controlled by the anti development Hard Left that we still have delays on O’Devaney Gardens. Sadly the likes of the Greens and Soc Dems are still afraid of the headbangers on the left.
I have no doubt about the intentions of most people involved.
But there are huge administration bodies doing the same work across charities that could be better spent elsewhere.
I’d actually be in favour of the State or local council insourcing all of those functions and removing outsourced direct funding to the charitable sector. It’s already happening with certain outsourced HSE functions. Very socialist of me.
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That would mean accountability at Government level which is the last thing they want.