Veteran homelessness campaigner says services are worse than 30 years ago

The slum conditions existing at the time of the 1913 Lockout continue today in “appalling” rented accommodation, Fr Peter McVerry has said.

The homelessness campaigner said emergency services are worse now than when he started working in the area over 30 years ago.

Fr McVerry said that, on the centenary of the labour uprising: