Wexford Gardaí have written a letter to both Wexford County Council and Ozanam House homeless shelter, asking them not to direct homeless individuals to the local garda station in the absence of any emergency beds being available.
Although the assumption would be that homeless shelters provide temporary, emergency accommodation for those with nowhere else to go, this is certainly not the case in Wexford it has emerged.
A homeless man who robbed vodka from a Wexford Town off-licence and then attacked a passerby outside the shop was jailed for two and a half years in the Circuit Court.