‘So long as these people are here, we’ll never starve’: In the queue for Christmas vouchers at Dublin’s Capuchin Day Centre
A bitter wind blows up Bow Street in Dublin’s North Inner City, buffeting the hundreds queuing outside the Capuchin Day Centre. It’s 6.30am but some have been here for half an hour already, waiting for the doors to open and the special Christmas vouchers to be passed out. The queue at the Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street, Dublin in the early hours of Friday morning. Or maybe a pair of shoes.”Baronita Kostas from Romania will spend her Christmas voucher from the Capuchin centre on baby formula. Martin Cuffe, a recovering gambling addict, at the Capuchin centre in Dublin on Friday.
Source: The Irish Times December 19, 2025 18:34 UTC
