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PROTESTING Debenhams workers were horrified to discover a homeless man sleeping in a large commercial rubbish bin in an Irish city centre.
The man, who normally sleeps in a tent pitched in the doorway of the former Cork store, had gone into the green plastic bin in a desperate bid to find shelter from the driving sleet and rain on Tuesday night.
Claire O Leary of Watergrasshill in Co Cork was on a socially-distanced picket outside the St Patrick Street store with a colleague when they made the shocking discovery as they disposed of two coffee cups. My colleague lifted the lid on the bin and she said: There is someone in there. there is someone in there.” She put the lid down again. She got such a fright.
There was a workman passing by. She said it to him and he went down and had a look and the man was just asleep. The main worry was that the bin men would come and empty the bins. We have seen it in Dublin where a bin was emptied and a person was killed. I would be saying to shop owners and companies to be vigilant. Keep an eye on them. They are only trying to stay in from the elements.
Elaine Kelleher, who is also on Debenhams picket duty on St Patrick s Street, said that what they have seen on the streets outside the store over the last 285 days feels like another world from when they were employed in the historic high street store.