On the street his nickname is “Donegal” but this annoys him slightly “because I’m not from Donegal. I sat today on O’Connell street and just cried, just depression. Photograph: Tom HonanI’m walking around a deserted Dublin city centre with the Dublin Simon Community’s Outreach team. Pat Doyle, chief executive of The Peter McVerry Trust, oversaw the Covid isolation services for homeless people with suspected Covid. “[The lockdown] is madness for a normal person but it’s really madness for a homeless person,” he says.

Source: The Irish Times May 01, 2021 05:00 UTC