Dubliner Gary gets place to call his own after 10 years of homelessness

Suddenly, after a decade of waiting, it happened. Gary had a roof over his head. A roof of his own.

In one small quarter of Twitter on Monday, this was news to brighten the day.

Gary, a 29-year-old from Tallaght who has spent 10 years in varying degrees of homelessness, had secured the keys to a self-contained flat in one of the nicer areas of Dun Laoghaire.