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Two men were found dead in Dublin this morning.
One of the men, in his 40s, was discovered on Leinster Lane in Dublin city center by a passerby around 8:30 a.m.
About an hour later, a second man was found dead in an apartment on Longford Street, also in the center of town, in an apartment believed to be owned by a charity.
The Gardaí and emergency services were called to the scenes separately.
The remains of the two men were taken to the City Morgue for post-mortem examinations.
Gardaí said they were awaiting the results of the autopsy to determine the direction their investigations will take.
However, the deaths are not currently believed to be suspicious, and Gardaí said “their deaths are not believed to be linked.”
The death of the two men brings to more than 57 the number of people who have died in Dublin so far this year.
The deaths come nearly six years after the day there was a national outcry when the homeless man, Jonathan Corrie (43), was discovered dead in a doorway on Molesworth Street.
Last month, a young mother of four was one of two homeless people found dead in Dublin over the holiday weekend.
The woman (31) is believed to have been dead for several days when her body was found in a tent on Lynch’s Lane in Clondalkin, in the early hours of Saturday, October 24.
Independent Councilman Anthony Flynn and the Homeless Awareness Advocate described the latest deaths as “gruesome.”
Referring to the homeless on the streets of Dublin, Mr. Flynn said: “The responsibility ends with Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien. I begged him to get them off the streets like they did during the first Covid-19 shutdown, but government services are not doing it.
“How many more people have to die before the Minister does something about it. This is very annoying, annoying and frustrating. My blood is boiling.
“I have warned the powers that be that more deaths were inevitable due to this pandemic and now that winter has really started with cold nights.”
Mr Flynn added: “The Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) must do more than it says it is doing.”
Figures from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage show that since the end of September, 4,251 people have been made homeless in Dublin, while nationwide the numbers rose to 6,073.
DRHE and the Health Services Executive will conduct an investigation into homeless deaths this year.
Earlier this month, a DRHE homeless report pledged to “jointly conduct a detailed review of all deaths in homeless services this year.”
The total number of single adults in emergency shelter has continued to rise, and in September this number stood at 2,994 according to the Council’s report.
The number of single adults presenting themselves as homeless and using emergency shelter for the first time has remained high. Figures for an eight-month period show that 135 single adults used emergency shelter for the first time in September; There were 134 in August, 176 in July, 105 in June, 123 in May, 99 in April, 108 in March, 160 in February, and in January there were 215.
There has been some success in terms of single people leaving emergency housing, with 89 single adults retiring to lease and 57 individual prevention through new leases in September. In August those figures stood at 68 and 59.
The City Council and HSE have also initiated a joint review on all aspects of how emergency accommodation facilities are operated on behalf of the DRHE in the city and a comparison of day-to-day management operations between NGOs and private operators.
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