A total of 250 homeless people enjoyed a banquet dinner in Dublin’s GPO yesterday evening. Defence Forces spring into action to convert GPO into banquet venue for members of homeless community pic.twitter.com/ZrZW6ShSge — RTÉ News (@rtenews) January 19, 2018The event, run by the Dublin Lions Club, is known as Eric’s Party and is now in its 59th year. It coincides with a drop in the latest homeless figures - new statistics show that 270 fewer people were homeless last month. U2’s Larry Mullen makes a surprise appearance at the homeless dinner in the GPO @rtenews pic.twitter.com/JF6VBNEsvV — Samantha Libreri (@SamanthaLibreri) January 19, 2018John Sheehy, President of the Dublin Lions Club, said that it is always a great event. Humbling experience at Eric's party in the GPO for the homeless.

Source: Evening echo January 20, 2018 08:15 UTC