Homeless man sleeping soundly outside housing summit was not an extra

Inside the Custom House, yesterday morning, were Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, and the chief executives of the 31 local authorities, sitting around a boardroom table, writes Joyce Fegan.

Outside, the former lord mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke, was chained to the gates, 300 posters of homeless children were strapped to the railings, and the

Socialist Party had placed a life-sized baby elephant on the footpath.