Shelter for young homeless to get a corporate clean-up

IAN was only 10 when his mother’s partner injected him with heroin. Last year, the people who run Ireland’s first, and only, shelter for young homeless people came across Ian, then a destitute drug addict.

The Clancy 'low-threshold' shelter in Dublin's north city took Ian, now 22, under their wing and gave him something he never had hope.

Unlike most hostels, the shelter accepts young people with behavioural problems. It even tolerates people who arrive drunk and under the influence of drugs.