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Updated at 4.55pm
GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING the discovery of a body of a man in Stephen’s Green on Monday.
Gardaí confirmed that they were called to the scene at about 9.30am and that they discovered the body of a 30-year-old man.
They are carrying out an investigation into his death, but it is not being treated as suspicious.
A sleeping bag was discovered next to the man’s body.
Discovered
It is believed that the man had come to Dublin from Limerick for an event at the weekend.
He had been encountered on Sunday night by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) volunteer team, who were performing a rough sleeper count and was given a sleeping bag by the team.
The man who discovered his body, Jay, said when he got into the middle of Stephen’s Green he “noticed somebody looked like they were asleep on the ground”. He spoke to Drivetime about what occurred.
“I noticed that people were looking at him and just moving on,” he said. “As I got closer to him I just realised you could see a bit of his face, he didn’t look right. I sat down on the seat and I kept looking at him. I had this feeling there was something wrong, I was calling at him asking him was he ok and I didn’t get a reply out of him.”
He didn’t notice the man breathing, so moved his foot with his own foot, which didn’t budge. He then rang 999. When he touched the man’s hand and it was cold, he “got an awful shock” and then began calling for help.
He said that people were “just looking and kept walking”. CPR failed to revive the man.
Jay said he got upset afterwards thinking about people passing by and not helping.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
Poor guy, we need to do more to help our own people
We can help our own and Europe as a collective can help others. Another needless death!.. Devastating.
We need to do more to help people.
You are so right on Phil.
Rod the loony pc brigade would say that your statement is racist
@whereisspace it obviously is if he is advocating helping people based on their race. As Phil says above lets do more to help people, doesn’t matter where they are from.
Sounds like this poor soul was lost in society like so many more gone before him, hope he has finally found a place to rest.
Eh he’s dead
Is mick wallace crying
No he is crying for the migrants
Crying into his pension pot
Was that the park where enda kenny sat on a bench with a homeless bloke for 20 minutes explaining how FG were ‘securing the recovery’(tm)?
You really revel in others misfortune don’t you, any opportunity to score points
Id say you are delighted with this poor man death so you can spew your bile
You’re bitter sad case Jamming
No reply to my comment for half an hour, then 3 of the usual suspects post within 2 minutes of each other.
Looks like my post rattled the right cage.
You’re truly despicable. Politicising a death like that. Maybe you should take a look at yourself.
Why don’t you respond to the substance of the point rather than deflect, avoid and dodge, your post was even worse than what you normally post here, it is just low points scoring drivel, this is a tragedy, a man has died, have some respect
At least have the compassion to allow people to mourn his death before you start using it as a stick to beat your political opponents with. Truly insensitive behaviour, somethings transcend party politics.
@ leargas: Revel? No. Disgusted at repeated propaganda and photo ops by FG/Labour reacting to homeless tragedies and crises, only for them to then go back to ignoring the issue, yes. Remember kenny and alan kelly all over the news meeting the homeless after Jonathan Corries death? The empty promises which they never kepy, or I would wager, intended on keeping?
I’m glad people are calling you out on your disgusting comments, have you any morals at all shinnerbot?
where do you get your kicks spamming, A&E?
@ Sciathán Ceart: You talk of ‘compassion’ for a homeless man who has died tragically, yet your twitter account is named ‘RightWingIRL88′, successive right wing governments being the cause of our homelessness national emergency.
Nice to see you all out of the woodwork with your faux outrage lads. As sincere as a brazzers kiss the lot of ye. Get back to me when you attend meetings and protests on homelessness.
‘@ leargas: Revel? No. Disgusted at repeated propaganda and photo ops by FG/Labour reacting to homeless tragedies and crises, only for them to then go back to ignoring the issue, yes. Remember kenny and alan kelly all over the news meeting the homeless after Jonathan Corries death? The empty promises which they never kepy, or I would wager, intended on keeping?’
Propose a solution then, you may be disgusted but you have yet to propose anything of substance, you used the tragic death of this man to simply score points. It is very easy to be a hurler on the ditch, if you really are disgusted stop trying to score points off tragedies and suggest ways to improve the current situation and help end the crisis
morally bankrupt is the only way to describe the shinnerbots
@ leargas: “Simply scoring points”? Hardly.
I remember thingking at the time our seannachi-in-chief told us about him spending 20 minutes in a park sitting on a bench talking to a homeless man that he may well regret that little fable if a homeless person was found dead in a park while he was still in office.
Incidentally, seeing as though you were all too busy ‘revelling’ in your faux outrage to answer my question, I went back and checked myself, it was Merrion Square Park rather than Stephens Green.
@ For Connolly
This is a new low – even for you.
“I remember thingking at the time our seannachi-in-chief ….”
Translation – I bitterly stored up this tragedy to exploit for political points scoring in the future.
The death of a person is a tragedy – not fuel for your anti Kenny bile.
And by the way, homeless deaths aren’t exclusive to southern Ireland, unfortunately. They also happen in the North, where SF are in power, but I don’t recall you using their deaths to bash a political opponent.
Hypocrisy of the highest order.
“The death of a person is a tragedy ”
I agree. In the case of the deaths of the homeless I have a track record of supporting partys which help the homeless rather than cause the crises in the first place.
How about yourself?
You have a history is supporting parties who help the homeless? How come you work for and support Sinn Fein so?
Faux outrage? Your comments are all the more disgusting and opportunistic now, you have no regard for anyone or anything except scoring points, this is a tragic case which you have tried to politicise, you should be ashamed!
Issues with homelessness. Lack of housing. Lack of jobs for youth employment. No care for mental health in the Dail. But it’s okay we’re in the EU now! Let us help the refugees first.
Yes. Make this about other people seeking help rather than the ones not providing any help.
Exactly… You don’t need to bring other crises into this. Facts are this can be fixed and the government are choosing now to!
We now seem to have degrees of homelessness. Families priced out of rental market, classic homelessness, and refugees stealing homes from one and two.
What has the EU got to do with this? This is a national issue which the government could address properly if they wished to, but they don’t because they’re too busy pi__ing about pretending they’re useful and securing themselves a job for the next four years, because homeless people don’t vote and because nobody gives a s–t about them anyway.
A little bit of perspective wouldn’t go amiss before you go and start using a tragic avoidable death like this to grin the gears of some unrelated political bugbear you hold.
Might help even a little to focus minds in Trinity today. Awful end to a life
Site of part of 1916 rising.How sad now site of homeless man found dead.Something radically wrong.
Yes, if 1916 had not happened countless thousands would not have died needlessly.
Countless thousands?! Yeah, OK. A lot more wouldn’t have died needlessly through the centuries if the English had stayed out of Ireland.
Grow up.
The English had stayed out of Ireland? Well we weren’t a state at the time nor has Ireland ever been a state until 1949.
In terms of the times that the “invasion” took place Normans arrived and set up shop just like they didn’t across the rest of Europe.
What came after that was a continuation of rule by the winners of consecutive wars.
To say that the English intentionally invaded us and subjected the Irish people and attempted to mass murder them is an untrue statement built on a need to feel nationalistic rather than realistic.
The Welsh and Scots and the English all suffered during these times, the elites who were as a majority ethnically Irish perpetrated most of your atrocities you claim happened. Just like in England many of the atrocities were done by English people.
I wonder when the Irish people will get over the whole “the English did this and are evil” malarkey and just move on and accept bad things happened in the past to everyone. If we go about holding onto those grudges we will all be war with one another.
Wheeler is a surname of English origin. I rest my case.
And my Great Grandfather fought in Boland’s Mill beside the volunteers and my other Great Grandfather Defended Belfast during the Blitz.
What’s your point?
I cannot have an informed opinion because of my past or do you dislike that an Irish man can retain a degree of compassion and forgiveness and a modicum of foresight to say proudly, let the past go and let’s move forward together.
Everyone’s great grandfather fought in Boland’s Mill.
@Phil Are you suggesting that i am fabricating my family history in some vain attempt to sound “cool” or “interesting” ?
Not at all, Sure my Ma met your Ma at U2′s first gig at the Dandelion Market.
I suggest the editor deletes this article. It’s completely false and full of misinformation. The person involved was from a very well respected North Kerry family and had travelled to Dublin to attend the National League final.
Regi , you are correct and I don’t know why the journal hasn’t changed it .
What a terrible tragedy for a young man.
It’s Friday, it happened on Monday. Slow news day?
He was buried today. Have a bit of compassion
I do have compassion for him. It’s a terrible thing to happen but my point was that this happened earlier in the week and has been reported elsewhere. My issue is with the journal only picking up on it now.
In fairness to the journal, It wasn’t reported in any media outlets for certain reasons. Sometimes there are things going on behind the scenes that aren’t for public consumption.
It was reported 2 days ago. http://www.gazettegroup.com/news/homeless-man-dies-in-st-stephens-green/
The devils in the detail though, as it wasn’t made known where he was originally from, or his identification. Members of his family had not been notified at that point and as such he was ‘only missing’ to them.
I understand that. But I feel like I could be going around in circles here. I am simply stating that the journal are a bit slow to pick up stories that is all.
Your wrong Keith
You’re*
Delete this article immediately. It’s completely false and full of misinformation.
It’s hugely disrespectful to the family involved, who are a well known, well respected North Kerry family.
Research your articles properly before you publish them.
Should be treated as murder.. the goverment have blood on their hands not looking after their own.. more worried about who should be leader.. stop fighting over water.. look after the people.. very sad lonely way to die..
It is very sad Jennifer but suggesting that it is murder is a bit silly
Jenny faux outrage does nothing for any cause…
Yea i see that now.. just so so sad that they are left there to die lonely and scared.. when there can be something can be done..
Jenny I have worked with the homeless, and you would be surprised how many people make the decision to sleep rough or live outdoors. I know I was shocked by it.
For whatever reason, this man did not access any services in Dublin. We don’t know the circumstances that lead up to him becoming homeless, we don’t know how he died! But saying he was murdered seems a little over the top! No one in homeless services even knew he was here, how could they help him!
The man up from Kerry with his mates for the weekend to watch the finals .. he was not homeless .
Very sad
Condolences to the man’s family. Another unneccessary death, only minutes away from our seat of ‘government’.
Why are we sending our Naval personnel out to the Mediterranean to look for ‘refugees’ (at great cost to the taxpayer)? We could just get the crew to walk through Dublin’s thoroughfares, rescuing the numerous sick and dying members of our indigenous population, lying in the gutters. However, it wouldn’t quite generate the same kudos on the world stage as the melodrama of pulling fake refugees and economic migrants out of unseaworthy boats.
When Ireland moves beyond third world status, providing shelter, food and a PROPER healthcare system to her citizens, we can start feeding and providing free accommodation in Hotels and Holiday camps to welfare tourists and maybe even one or two genuine refugees if any are to be found.
Couldn’t we do both? It’s not like we helped the homeless before the navy went to Med. It seems to me that Dublin streets not 100m from St Stephen’s Green are awash with money, cafes full all day, pubs all evening. Instead of moaning about what we do do, wouldn’t it be nice if the average city-centre worker or student had maybe one less Starbucks latte, seed-garnished yoghurt, kronut or craft beer per day and funded essential services both nationally and internationally?
Awful way to die.
What exactly are you saying is awful? We don’t know what killed him. He may have died peacefully in his sleep. He may have chosen to sleep outside as many do because they can’t stick to the rules. Over simplification of the issue is often worse than ignoring it because bad ill conceived plans get put in place due to public reactions
Yup, dying along on a cold night on a park bench in the middle of Dublin is certainly my chosen way to go. Just slightly above surrounded by family and surrounded by a harem of beautiful women.
@Phil your comments get weirder and weirder.
again was he on a park bench? Maybe he was high as a kite and had a sudden heart attack. Some people don’t want to slowly back into their graves and prefer to go at speed through life. Assumptions on what happened aren’t helpful, most people sleeping rough chose not to go to hostels as they can’t drink or take drugs. They won’t let you in if you are too high or drunk.
Lads , this guy wasn’t homeless at all ..
Desperate, we need to start looking after our own with some sort of quality of life condolences to his family
Delete this article immediately. It’s completely false and a disgracefully disrespectful piece. Research the story properly and then publish your article.
“Fastest growing economy in Europe!”
Where’s Mick Wallace now? Too busy trying to look good getting upset over other nation issues. Its fcuking time we looked after our own people and our own nations problems. Thst tulip Alan Kelly should also hang his head in shame.
God help him Rest in Peace
Don’t forget @oneforireland today or text ‘one’ to 50300 for a donation of €2 to homeless in Ireland. Time to start looking after number 1……no one else will. We shamed the world into acting during Band Aid and we hadn’t an arse in our trousers at the time! We still donate millions every year to countries all over the world and our own are dying. Its not good enough any more and it’s so sad so many of our citizens ,that worked hard in the UK for years, have been abandoned and forgotten as well. Shoulder to the wheel time.
Really sad again to see more people dying on our streets , around the corner from so called government buildings , Trinity collage shame on the so called irish government trying to cut a deal and people dying on our streets and parks
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