Mary McCarthy: We owed men of ‘tent city’ protection and dignity, but to our shame we provided neither
If the Government can solve the appalling “tent city” situation on Dublin’s Mount Street and find somewhere for the homeless male asylum-seekers now, then why not earlier?
Taoiseach Simon Harris said yesterday that the situation had become “completely unacceptable”, but it’s worse than unacceptable. It was downright shameful to leave the men in such conditions. More than 200 were left sleeping on concrete with no toilet.
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