Noel Baker: Who can homeless people turn to when there’s no happy ending?
The images last year of the small boy eating a plate of carbonara off a cardboard sheet laid on the pavement sparked public outrage and shone the spotlight once again on the homeless crisis. meets the boy and his mother to see how their lives have fared since and spends the night with the homeless freephone service in Dublin.
It’s a little after 12am on a Tuesday in Dublin city centre, and Mike is trying to ascertain exactly where the man on the other end of the phone is, and how to get him from there to his allocated bed for the night.
