Behind the door at the Cork Simon Community Day Centre

There's a couple of surprises in the queue for soup outside the Cork Simon Community day centre.

The first is that most of the men don’t look like what we dub “down and outs”. The second is that many of the men seem quite young.

You could say the absence of a woman in the queue is also surprising, but maybe not, when you consider the statistics: The number of homeless men outweighs the number of women by about five to one.