Pinch Me: A Look At A Child's Life In Homelessness For Profit
By Susanne Delaney
Long ago corrupt politicians in Ireland created a business model out of homelessness. Thus vulnerable humans were needed to feed it. Hence the lack of incentive to fix the "housing crisis."
Thousands per month is paid for one family (in one room) to a private providers. Rented apartments cost less. Better still the council could buy the properties. Which would be overall more economical.
But wealth is being created from forging childhood in a baptism of fire. Many will be left burdened with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is not good for them OR our failing society, and there will be no salve provided for the pain. Most people know how difficult it is to access mental health supports.
The "social contract" has been not so much broken as obliterated. Decisively. Deliberately. Disgustingly.
For any child in this type of situation, ascending Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is impossible. You are always on the bottom rungs of the ladder. Stuck in "survive, not thrive" mode.
How can you have a normal childhood when you cannot sit down for home-cooked nutritional meals? Or when you are denied the right to traverse the already difficult passage of puberty with actual privacy? How must it affect your sense of emerging tenuous autonomy to have that sense of being in control taken from you before you had a chance to embrace it? How must it affect your development to be institutionalised?
CCTV watches you in communal areas. Sign in and out books keep track of your family's whereabouts. Rules are doled out by strangers known as "staff" (as opposed to parents).
Scary shouting and crying of other residents punctuates the tense atmosphere. Nothing feels secure or safe, and an unwarranted but real sense of shame abounds. You have to travel across the city early to get to school, only to navigate how to hide your circumstances.
Some of these children have been born into homelessness. Some of them will never leave it, and the conditions they live in are often hazardous. Good standards eats into profits.
This week it emerged (unsurprisingly) during box-ticking inspections that dangerous mould, damp, pest infestations, smashed windows, broken fire alarm systems and no record of fire safety checks and drills are all par for the course in homeless "shelters".
At a centre housing 232 people (including 63 families and 18 babies) the fire alarm panel was recorded as being permanently in “fault mode".
Dublin City Council has since said there had been an improvement in standards across emergency accommodation, yet provided no evidence of same.
DCC has also now engaged an independent contractor to provide a homeless accommodation inspection service.
Ah right... so more expensive subcontractors who can be convinced to alter findings for a price.
I witnessed this at a council dog pound I worked at - veterinary inspectors would acknowledge the severe issues during inspections, and then write glowing reports.
Moreover, I've experienced first-hand the brown envelope cover-ups at hostels when someone dies on their watch and lies undiscovered for days.
Some Gardaí are more than willing to aggressively intervene when you seek CCTV and other important evidence to piece together the last movements of a loved one.
Casual transactions hide a myriad... and so too does pinching.
I once watched a documentary in which one child would pinch herself hard to cope with the intense stress regarding her family's homelessness.
Kelly Louise said it would take her focus off the urge to cry. I had only ever previously heard about people pinching themselves because they feel lucky. I never forgot her story.
We cannot fix the lives of these children, however we can be a voice for them and expose the evil truth behind a ruthless industry. That's why I wrote this piece today and I would ask you kindly to please share it far and wide.
Hi @grok , I am looking for an objective answer to this question.
I am a single white woman. I would like to move to Nigeria but I feel that Irish history should be made compulsory in Nigerian schools, given how much the Irish have struggled to gain our freedom in the past.
I also feel that as I will be a minority in that country - all their public servants should have mandatory anti-racism training, because they have never been taught to be non-racist.
How do you think this might be received? Please be objective and blunt.
This photo of three small Irish children, sleeping in the back of a car, has gone viral.
One of them had to get up and go to school the next day. Their Irish parents had literally nowhere else to go.
Meanwhile, thousands (and I mean thousands) of blacks, Muslims, Asian migrants flood our shores every month and get accommodated immediately.
It’s utterly despicable and infuriating.
Please share this image to show what’s really happening in Ireland 🇮🇪
Where in Bunreacht na hÉireann did the Oireachtas obtain the authority to give non-Irish citizens the coercive powers of An Garda Síochána? If that authority is not already contained in the Constitution, why was the matter never put before the Irish people by referendum?
Article 6 says governmental powers derive from the people and may be exercised by or on the authority of the constitutional organs of State. Article 15.2.1 then gives the Oireachtas the sole power to make laws for the State, while Article 28.2 places executive power with or under the authority of Government.
🚨🇪🇸Emotional scenes from Ceuta as a 90-year-old lady watches thousands of Spaniards protest, wiping away tears as she greets them from her window.
She blew kisses to the brave patriots standing up for their country.
Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 13-year-old Mark Brady, who was reported missing from Citywest, Dublin 24, since Thursday 20th August 2026.
Mark Brady is described as being approximately 5 foot 3 inches in height with a medium build, brown hair and brown eyes.
Mark was last seen wearing a blue top, black jacket, black trousers, and black shoes. He is known to frequent the Clondalkin area.
Gardaí are concerned for Mark Brady's well-being.
Anyone with any information on Mark Brady’s whereabouts is asked to contact Tallaght Garda Station on 01 666 6000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.
@TheMandyGall In fairness it’s all a load of dribble and always has been. This was probably a publicity stunt. They know exactly what they were doing and knew the backlash! Never have I seen the show get so much publicity!
@GTKO_82@VideosIrish Im shocked by the vile comments.They obviously had no direction in their lives.The reality is, they know they can’t be pursued &that was the thrill. Lawless Ireland, bad parenting & social media has destroyed our children. Not 2 fcks did them boys have. Why?
Parents are told not to give their babies honey before age one because their developing bodies are especially vulnerable.
Yet from birth, babies are recommended vaccines that can contain aluminum adjuvants and other ingredients most parents have probably never been told much about.
Why aren’t parents encouraged to ask the same questions about what’s being injected into their babies?
What’s in each shot? How much are they receiving at once? What happens when multiple vaccines are given together? And what do we know about the cumulative exposure across the childhood schedule?
Parents deserve the right to make fully informed decisions for their own children.
I do these videos and I'm like will I post them or won't I post them 🤔
Sometimes I say too much and I'm like I really can't post that 🤣🤣
But I'll post this one sher ....
I can see why people are scared of me....
I say alot.