The Irish folks singer Lisa O’Neill has a brand new single out right now, a tune of grief and protest known as “Homeless In The 1000’s (Dublin In The Digital Age).” The attractive and heartbreaking observe, which laments the state of O’Neill’s residence metropolis, incorporates a spoken phrase section from the Libertines’ Pete Doherty, who simply introduced a brand new solo album the opposite day.
An announcement from O’Neill:
We write what we see. I’ve lived in Dublin Metropolis for twenty-four years. As winter 2024 approached, that is the tune that got here to me. And listed here are some ideas on why I’ve chosen to place it out in the beginning of this new 12 months. As our new Authorities make plans to rejuvenate our capital metropolis centre, by spending to embrace the streets, its historical past, its buildings (occupied and empty) and its artists, I hope my tune will assist them recall what is really on the coronary heart of this, and any metropolis or group world wide. On the coronary heart of the town is the individuals of the town. They’re the heart beat. If the heart beat stops, the center stops.
Kindness is human power.
Housing is a human want.January 2025, and Eire has a housing disaster that’s off the charts. It’s 109 years since Padraig Pearce stood exterior the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Road and browse The Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
“The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of each Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic ensures non secular and civil liberty, equal rights and equal alternatives to all its residents, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the entire nation and of all its components, cherishing all the kids of the nation equally, and oblivious of the variations rigorously fostered by an alien Authorities, which have divided a minority from the bulk prior to now.”
Exterior that very same GPO right now one can find a number of charities working soup kitchens to assist feed these in want. To call just a few The Muslim Sisters of Ireland, Hope within the Darkness Soup Run and Dublin Herb Bike – all of whom have been offering sizzling and nourishing meals, sleeping baggage, care, consideration and hope to people who want their providers. These charities, amongst many others, have been working for at the very least a decade…
Introducing by-laws to manage these soup kitchens, as our newly shaped authorities is making an attempt to do now, will cover the tough actuality of homelessness from the eyes of society.
The issue won’t go away by unseeing.
The issue can solely be resolved by seeing and serving to.
Pay attention beneath.
