And like almost everyone who lives in a city like Dublin, I do a lot of not seeing, a lot of not hearing. There’s an ingenious fantasy novel called The City & The City by the English writer China Miéville that I think about quite frequently when I consider this aspect of living in Dublin. Piotr Torng died last year, but no one came forward to claim his bodyAll this is on my mind because of a report published earlier this week about an inquest into the death last year of a 41-year-old homeless man. The man was known as Piotr Torng, and was believed to be from Lithuania, but his actual identity remains unconfirmed. According to that news report, Piotr Torng largely spent his days in the south inner city.

Source: The Irish Times November 02, 2025 19:42 UTC