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LAST YEAR’S TRADITIONAL Christmas Eve busk on Grafton Street had to be shut down early because of overcrowding.
Perhaps that’s why this year’s was planned for a proper stage outside the Gaiety Theatre.
Danny O’Reilly from The Coronas, Hozier and many others joined Glen Hansard and friends to raise money for Home Sweet Home – the organisation that campaigns to end homelessness in Ireland.
Here they are belting out Heyday for a packed audience this evening.
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Here’s a snippet of Hozier’s performance.
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The weather also stayed dry and reasonably mild, thankfully, allowing a large crowd to gather on the pedestrianised street.
Written by David Elkin and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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We have very few genuinely homeless people, the vast majority are housed in nice hotels at GREAT expense to the hard working public who have to pay for everything.
@Martin Black: We need a public housing scheme to cut out exploitation from hotels and landlordism.
@Sean Conway: so true.
@Martin Black: You think a hotel is a good place to house a homeless child? Really?
@Kerry Blake: it’s better than the streets that’s for sure and the childs parents don’t have to put their hands in their own pockets to pay for it.
@Martin Black: exactly, my two adult children still live at home, can’t afford to live elsewhere, and one is a doctor, I could throw them out and they’d be homeless. There’s absolutely no doubt that many people are genuinely homeless and should be looked after but there’s also a lot of people with addiction issues and then there’s chancers, they shouldn’t all be lumped into the one category.
@Martin Black: have you data on this and I’ll present to minister Murphy who doesn’t appear to have much knowledge of homelessness
FFS would you put all that effort energy and support in to something practical to help.
Singing and dancing wont do it.
@Mr Grumble:
Maybe you could too
@Mr Grumble: What they are doing is celebrating Christmas in a fun and positive way for all the shoppers and workers in town. They are also keeping the homeless crisis in the spotlight. I admire them considerably for doing this.
@Richard Wright: just who is not aware….
@Mr Grumble: hmmm… poor troll or genuine idiot?
@Frank Cauldhame: awarding your admiration and acceptance of such admiration is probably the real driver foe such an event
It’s a call to action, to energise and to motivate people towards a solution. We all do what we can do best or else we do nothing.
@Fiona deFreyne: people doing their best is all I suggest. Just needs more hammer and nails action now…. not soon …. but now. Enough we will we should we plan we can …. use powers of CPO’s today…. solve problem today… fix loose ends up afterwards. There’s something to sing and dance about
@Fred Croydon: None of those houses in Ballsbridge are for social housing. They bought a number of houses recently down by the docks for social housing.
Hansard and Hozier. Sounds like a deli in Donnybrook. I just barfed in my Baileys. Happy Christmas.
@Eoin Fitzpatrick:Lol. Don’t choke on your beluga :-)
There are other charities and people in need…couldn’t move 10 yards in Dublin today for someone collecting for homelessness ffs.
@Fred Croydon: ‘It’s sickening and an absolute disgrace what this country is doing. It’s like we’re set up to worship the welfare class as our Gods.’
You are an ill-informed cold hearted buffoon. Green thumb my comment with your hundreds of false accounts pal, Happy Christmas.
@Gary: You’re right but hes talking about the apartments bought at the Shelbourne Plaza, in Ringsend, which is also D4.
Glen raising funds for @Dublin_simon …check your facts! #HappyChristmas ♥️
@Fred Croydon: Fred if it’s that good why don’t you join them??
Hansard promoting new album
@Diogenes: And unfortunately, homeless people will continue to die on the streets long after the homeless problem is resolved.
@Fred Croydon: Because homeless people are dying on the street.
@Fred Croydon:
Fred, for the first time, I’m nearly feeling sorry for you – nearly!
It’s Christmas Eve, a time when most of us are spending the evening relaxing with our families and looking forward to tomorrow and putting the ills of the world to one side and perhaps sparing a thought for those who are less fortunate.
But not you: you would rather use the time to vent your anger at the those who are unfortunate enough to depend on the welfare system.
You really are a sad little man!
@Diogenes: What are they dying from though? You can overdose in a house too
Instead of the quota of social and affordable housing in mixed social developments, wealthy developers can segregate social and affordable into other developments in other areas.
@Fred Croydon: are you annoyed that the bastion of the rich and middle classs is being invaded by people on benifit st , I live in the Georgian core and I am on benifit st . Go get a life Fred , good on them who ever they are , it will change their life ,
Really sad that the officious Garda who were put on duty and who cordoned off the road into the Gaiety spoiled this tradition for so many! No need at all!! #healthandsafetygonenuts Bono never showed up either!!
@Fake Avast: Ringsend sits between Google H.Q. and the central bank making it both a prominent and desirable D4 address.
Hate that hozier with a seasonal passion .
@Fred Croydon: LEITRIM?
Whozier ?
@Frank Cauldhame: free sh*t for everyone. Go you.
@Fred Croydon: they could have bought them off nama six years ago for a couple of million.
@Fred Croydon: what sector do you work in Fred?
@Fake Avast: you think? Turnkey three bed terrace with zero garden listed for 500k in ringsend. Someone must want to live there….
@Fred Croydon: what the f uck !! Ireland officially mad completely lost the run of ourselves
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