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One man died of hypothermia after making his home in a public toilet in Derry. The story emerged on the Paul McFadden show after a local councillor found a friend sleeping rough behind a hedge near the Guildhall. Street-drinkers were sleeping rough in the doorway of a hostel for the homeless, which was lying empty. Then a local businessman put a portable building in the car park near Craigavon Bridge for the down-and-outs to shelter in. The Mayor convened a meeting which secured funding for a crash facility, in Carlisle Road. At the start of December, the authorities acted, by opening a new shelter there.
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13 MARCH 2009
The "Get Your Head Down" shelter will close at the end of March if new funding is not found. But The Housing Executive says it has now secured new crisis shelter beds for the homeless to fill the gap. They will be at Damien House in the city. Sean Mackie of the Housing Executive told Sarah Brett what is happening. |
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13 FEBRUARY 2009
He was once homeless, and an alcoholic, but now is a successful website designer. Shaun Baird explains how he turned his own life around when he realised he needed help. |
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2 DECEMBER
At the start of December, a new shelter for homeless people opened in Derry. Two months earlier, Eamon Anderson, died after he made his home in a public toilet in the city. Teresa Craig reports. |
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13 NOVEMBER
The brother of one homeless man from Derry spoke to Paul McFadden after new measures to help were put in place. He said he still feared for his brother's future, as winter approached. Both brothers' names have been withheld. |
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12 NOVEMBER
The Mayor, Councillor Gerard Diver, confirmed that a portable shelter is to be removed from a carpark in Derry. Three rough sleepers who had been using it had already moved into hostels, and the remaining two, a man and young woman, were promised similar accommodation. The local businessman who erected the shelter, who asked to be known as "Paul", welcomed the initiative. |
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7 NOVEMBER
"I came out of a children's home... I was forced to sleep at the back of the toilets beside the station in the Waterside..." Jackie Williamson emailed the Paul McFadden show to tell about her experiences. And then she came in to tell him her story. |
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7 NOVEMBER
The Morning Programme 's Michael Bradley, spoke to Margaret, the mother of the man who died on the streets, Eamon Anderson. |
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7 NOVEMBER
Sarah Brett spoke to other street drinkers who were friends of Eamon Anderson. |
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 7 NOVEMBER
A local businessman erected a prefab for people sleeping rough in Derry. He said he didn't want to be named, but felt he had to do something.
Joe Doran visited it for a live report. |
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6 NOVEMBER
Jackie Gallagher from CAB said she knew the man who lost his life. |
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6 NOVEMBER
Police inspector, Paul Deacon, reveals that one rough sleeper had died while living in a toilet. |
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6 NOVEMBER
Councillor Billy Page was shocked to discover an old friend sleeping rough in shrubs. |
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6 NOVEMBER
Paul describes something shocking at John Street. |
See also:
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Texter, John: You should do a piece on the so called investment that never happened. I'm fed up with all this pie in the sky. Nobody is doing nothing about it. Derry is becoming a failed entity never mind the politics of this place.
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