Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide: The endless days on Cork city's streets
Donal O'Keeffe examines addiction, homelessness and rough sleeping as calls grow for expanded support services across Cork city
By 7am most mornings, there will be half a dozen people or more hanging around the Lapp’s Quay area, rough sleepers waiting for the homeless service’s day centre to open at 9am. Picture: Larry Cummins
“People are afraid of the big, scary, heroin addicts,” said the young man sitting on the pavement outside Cork Simon, “but there’s way scarier than us out there.”
He is one of the many people living with addiction in Cork City, tramping the streets during the day, begging — or stealing — the price of the next fix, their drug-taking often open and increasingly visible.
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