Diary 27 June 1985 - Homelessness, Grand Canal, Joyriding response, ILAC library
SINCE SEPTEMBER OF last year, eight regular visitors to the Marist night shelter in Athlone have died. All were between the ages of thirty and forty years old. These "Men of the Road" as they are called, died alone and unwanted, their bodies often found days later in hay barns, derelict buildings, and in one recent case, an old caravan.