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Businesses and organisations are being criticised for installing structures to prevent homeless people from sleeping in doorways.
A protest is planned to take place in Dublin this evening in reaction to a doorway in Rathmines being boarded up.
The hoarding has now been removed.
Hear from homeless people,The Alice Leahy Trust, business owners and residents about the situation on @TheHardShoulder shortly. pic.twitter.com/wXLWrCxUtS
A protest was planned for Dublin in reaction to horading being erected at doorway in Rathmines, which has since been removed.
Reporter Josh Crosbie has been speaking with homeless people, business owners and residents about the situation.
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The head of a homeless charity says some people are sleeping next to Garda stations just to have somebody keep an eye on them.
Alice Leahy was speaking as the issue of homeless people sleeping in doorways has recently come back to the fore.
It comes after a doorway in south Dublin, used by some as shelter, was boarded up earlier this week.
Is this less of an eyesore than the homeless man who was sleeping behind it throughout the pandemic? Heartless nimbyism. I ll vote for whatever party gets it taken down. #byelection2021#Rathmines#DublinBaySouth@ivanabacikpic.twitter.com/A0aSfAOPyS
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