Meet Pip - 24 years on the streets - Dublin, Ireland

 Meet Pip from Dublin. He has been on the streets for the last 24 years. Check this out!

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Vlog in text: Folks we are here with peep who's been on the streets of Dublin for how long 24 years 24 years really that's that's a long time half life where do you usually sleep um we don't go a hustle on the street somewhere ground Street maybe around D green up around that area you know quite up there a hostel we get don't get a host sleep on the streets all right so what why you became homeless um well at a very young age last children and uh I went to a bad time with drink and that and got to drugs and that just because a man is homeless doesn't mean he's abusing these substances I've been in and out of hostels and I've been living in tents um so all together probably on the streets probably 5 years you say I'm not blind I'm a con artist and a fake and a phony I went into care of the hsse and I went from care home to care home High proportion of them are probably drug otics right and crack otics crack cocaine is the problem and and heroin I don't when I was a kid that I had to get my sisters out of the house because the house went on fire and I there the only one that could cu the rest of them were all underneath me my age and my M my dad and my little brother died in the fire I'm an alcoholic but I haven't drank in N Dam months and uh I went to a bad time with drinking that and got to drugs his father got very ill and the things went from from there wrong you know just never got got off that like you know you what drugs was that heroin heroin you still still thing no all right thank God no I don't I don't drink don't do that anymore all right well where were you originally from kma okay not and where's that no okay right and you moved to Dublin when I know D life all right oh I see no you came to Dublin from from from there no no it is D it is part of sorry okay just arrived today my friend so uh drugs triggered your homelessness you may say only I only when came homes I only got into addiction when we came homeless on drugs I was drinking but I wasn't on drugs but when oh you Street I to okay and what about schools What what schools did you uh not second I young left school 16 you left school when you were 16 I see never came back no all right and jobs yeah I had a couple jobs on the way in I just paying decorating I walked in bakeries I walked in hotels I I had a few job few jobs know but nothing payment all right what about family uh mother thought about that uh BR lives down to Country sister she she's married she does her own thing you know she's does she does really understand it I don't think you know they they're old me have you got your own family I have three children yeah they're grown up now they're not children anymore H they're doing very well though you know they're doing okay so that's a blessing you know oh yeah God bless them yeah my friend uh tell me what's the situation in Ireland these days is it more and more homeless or how how you the crisis it's getting worse worse yeah there more people on the streets yeah every day you see more and more you see more and more what about the hand outs are they good is any help coming from yeah there people Del a fi and clothes and that yeah there a good come out and help us on Street s runs they're very good you know so just you had to find them they come around um Mouse nights any not every night now but Mouse nights most nights they come out Street Night War workers and ask you if you need anything and stuff like that they are around okay that's that's good to hear course all right my friend and just like a question not maybe about being homeless but uh you being from Ireland and uh having a border with the UK what do you think about brexit I don't understand it the UK leaving the EU well I don't know since we became part of the EU I mean I think I think that the because we have more and more influx of people you know it's hard now to get accommodation you know it's really hard to get accommodation the EU may not be a good thing for Ireland is that what you say yeah yeah would you like the island to leave the the EU yeah of course okay what about the NATO I know iseland is not a part of NATO I don't understand that either I don't know we've we've always been um with a peacekeeping company you know not don't know why I didn't we no we no I don't think we're not a war I don't don't no no we we're peacekeepers peacekeepers so you rather keep that way oh yeah of course keep Ireland out of NATO oh yeah absolutely all right and what about the the recent politics what's do you think that the current Irish government is doing good job no no they destroyed it all right so you not happy with the current government no and we don't get a chance to vote cuz we no address all right you have no address so you don't get so we don't we're not in the poll you know how can you do you know all right my friend and if there's somebody watching this and maybe wants to help you is there any kind of an email or or a phone number you have that where people can find you are you are you usually on the bridge like on the bridge how do you call that bridge that's a heavy Bridge H Bridge H Bridge right all right that's where you can meet PE uh is there anything else would you like to say no F thanks for the car thanks for caring all right thank you you know all the best people bless you thanks so much bless [Music] you I'm I'm doing I'm let me me Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ/join Check my vlog on https://bloggervloggerselektazupa.blogspot.com/ Please subscribe to my channels English - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ Polish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONq_xGqSq1IF_MF03QWhrQ Zupa's walks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFDFcYxQfjFbksRp9g5tcA Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUliL9aCdLJKX7bEqssl_g/videos Silesian Schalger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwrGNpy_d656LCARoqLexA/videos Find me on Facebook 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Lost a job and ended up homeless - Dublin, Ireland

 Meet Barry. He has lost his job and became homeless. He got so emotional in the end that we could not finish the interview..

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. Vlog in text: Folks we are here with Barry who's been homeless on the streets of Dublin for how long I'm on the streets about 7 or eight months 78 months yeah yeah you've been homeless before I've been homeless the past 10 years for 10 years and know hostiles I've been hostile hopping I've been on SAS and that and just I'm on the streets now officially the past seven months all right what triggered your homelessness Barry uh just no walk lost my job couldn't afford the rent and the place I'm was staying in I lost it because a man is homeless doesn't mean he's abusing these substances I've been in and out of hostels and I've been living in tents um so all together probably on the streets probably 5 years you say I'm not blind I'm a con artist and a fake and a phony I went into care of the hsse and I went from care home to Care Home High proportion of them are probably drug ads right and crack Caine problem and and heroin I don't when I was a kid that I had to get my sisters out of the house because the house went on fire and I was the only one that could cu the rest of them were all underneath me my age and my M my dad and my little brother died in the I'm an alcoholic but I haven't drank in n d months and I went to a bad time with drink and that and going to drugs and that uh just no walk lost my job couldn't afford the rent and the place I was staying in I lost it and then ended up homeless and I have H but nobody wants it accept a h on in properties anymore I have six children three all of ones three young ones and my par she's that have split up because homes has drove me to addiction and other places and I can't get over [Music] heaving all right no uh what addiction we talking about here drugs right 40 years of age I only touch it when I was 38 because I can't handle life right how is it to be homeless in Dublin H how do I put it it's hard it's hard I mean there there's not just the being on the streets there's the mental aspect of it how do you how do you pick yourself up rely on people here to give me a few you social welfare doesn't do me I have to pay i i v our bills to pay I have children I just I can't talk anymore I can't do nothing anymore I can't focus anymore mental health is just taken over because what life F go I'm sitting on the streets piging so the children with the mother she's all right yeah oh yeah they have a place they have a home it's just me I I can't sell I can't I sorry about [Music] that I'm do you had a Cho let me me let me Check this out. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ/join Check my vlog on https://bloggervloggerselektazupa.blogspot.com/ Please subscribe to my channels English - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ Polish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONq_xGqSq1IF_MF03QWhrQ Zupa's walks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFDFcYxQfjFbksRp9g5tcA Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUliL9aCdLJKX7bEqssl_g/videos Silesian Schalger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwrGNpy_d656LCARoqLexA/videos Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bartosz.strzelec.aka.zupa.tlumacz.dj.life.lover/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Selekta_Zupa Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selekta_zupa/ Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@vlogger_zupa #ireland #dublin #irish #discoverireland #travel #photography #nature #irelandtravel #wildatlanticway #daily #northernireland #uk #visitireland #cork #love #insta #galway #instaireland #loveireland #europe #ig #photooftheday #irlanda #gram #tourismireland #usa #travelphotography #england #raw #instagood

Meet Mikaela - 8 years on the streets - Dublin, Ireland

 Mikaela grew up in care homes. She was placed in a hostel and found love there. they both left the hostel and became homeless.

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.. . . .Vlog in text: All right folks we are here with Mela who's been homeless on the streets of Dublin for how long eight years now eight years and uh what triggered your homelessness I went into care of the HS and I went from care home to care home and then when I turned 18 automatically I ended up on the streets all right how old you've been when you you you you came to the care home 11 years old into care was that like a bad family situation yeah a very bad family situation like it it wasn't it wasn't safe for me to be at home anymore because a man is homeless doesn't mean he's abusing these substances I've been in and out of hostels and I've been living in tents um so all together probably on the streets probably five years you say I'm not blind I'm a con arst and a fake and a phony I went into care of the hsse and I went from care home to care home in high proportion of them are probably DRS right and crack GS crack cocaine you the problem and and heroin I don't when I was a kid that I had to get my sisters out of the house because the house went on fire and I was the only one that could was the rest of them were all underneath me my age and my M my dad and my little brother died in the fire alcoholic but I haven't drank in 19 months and uh I went to a bad time with drinking that and got to drugs and that was that like a bad family situation yeah very bad family situation like it it wasn't it wasn't safe for me to be at home anymore it was just it was like neglect and I always had to take care of my siblings siblings yes what happened to them um they went into care as well they went to care as well yeah I have six there's six of us all together and they all went into care yeah except for one of them only one of them didn't go into care the eldest one stayed with my mom I see I see how are your other siblings doing now well they're they're okay like like they they kind of came out of care and went in with my mom but it's it's harder than that like I have a six-year-old daughter as well but she's with my mom because you you got six years old daugh she's with your mom yeah CU I didn't want her to be in homeless situation cuz she has she has she only has one kidney she only has what one kidney she has one kidney she has this thing called Hemy hypertrophy which it's a rare disability disease okay so your mother is looking after her yeah because so he didn't want there to be in in back in in homeless like homelessness sorry to hear that M uh well tell me about your like childhood well you you were in a care care homes yeah Fosters family as well yeah they were they weren't the greatest they weren't the greatest no I was in a mental home a me a child's mental like mental home at the age of 14 which led me were you diagnosed with some mental mental yeah what's what what is it I've I've like I've a lot of like I've chronic depression and anxiety and postraumatic stress disorder because stuff happened while I was in car like I was sexually abused okay in the care in the state care that that worsen your mental health yeah it doesn't help it any better and how old you've been when you when you get out of the foster care 18 years old 18 and what happened then they basically just they try to help you what like but they can't can't help because there's so there was so when I turned 18 so I'm 26 now there was nowhere for kids and care to go other than to the homeless helpline so that's all they can do is give you the free phone number and that's all they do they don't offer you help or stability or tell me how is it to be homeless in the the streets of ding do you get some help not really like there's Outreach programs that can help but they they can only help as far as trying to get you into a bed but it depends how like that could be only a one night bed and then there's a lot of drugs in the in the hostals in Dublin where I try to stay away from that do they search you before they let you go to a hostel or no some hostel search you know yeah some do so you're getting violated in a way when you're get when you're going into somewhere where you think you're safe at night where you're getting checked on and then there's regular checks every like hour Sumer every hour some could be every two hours and then some could be just twice a day but the ones in the city center like they check a lot because a lot of J do you stay in hosts I had I had a reason to not be in the city center for so I can't be in a hostel particularly in the city center but I'm in I'm in one the past year and it's it's 80 rent which is a lot see 80 for 80 a week which is a lot of money a night um a week a week yeah okay well right and um like what about jobs jobs you work no I don't I don't work you were a mother quite yeah like it's hard even to get a job like you need to have experience and I don't have experience cuz I've only been experiened on the street really and then yeah I had somewhere with my daughter for a while but that didn't last so it was just safer for her to go and then for me to go back on the streets what about substance abuse are you having problems with that I was I was addicted to heroin heroin I was I ended up addict addicted to heroin but now I'm I'm I'm stable on M own is there a lot of drugs on the streets of Dublin a lot there's drugs every Everywhere You torn there's drugs in Dublin heroin and what else is there loose heroin crack cocaine tablets just a lot of Street tablets and then a lot of crack and heroin what kind of tablets we talking about um for homeless story it this does take a picture I'm broke have no money but I'm to r no B got Ro a roach no I don't sorry [Music] want hey look out around nice to meet you nice to meet you as well I ain't got no money I a't get no job love you give me a than no problem you too all right cheer your things are you Irish what friendly Lord I must say so a lot of people shoplift as well for addiction yeah so that's why he's said he robbed lifestyle Sports the shop I think it's it's only up there a little bit so he just said that yeah he just said that on it that he WAP lifestyle Sports all right well if there's somebody watching this and maybe wants to help you is there any way to contact you like a phone number email an email address yeah you can you can say maybe you maybe there are people out there who are willing to help you if you want to yeah email address is Michaela 4455 hotmail.com do have to spell probably they can ver if somebody's interesting if you want to spell spell it m i c h a e l b 4455 hotmail.com if anybody would like to reach out and help and maybe hear my story a bit more yeah you check your email regularly yeah no I I can yeah all right and uh any advice to to young people who are messing with drugs to anybody stay away from drugs they're a devil it only causes pain to family and yourself like it hurts a lot of people drugs are dangerous they're not and I I I I've abused drugs since I'm 1 so like my first drug was MDMA so I I like I I'd stay clear from any drug because it's a dict and it's hard to get rid of addiction it really is like it's not addiction is I would say yeah yeah that's a d it's a devil's a devil's drug that's what it is no it's sometimes it's life unfortunately and that's what happens all right my friend thanks a lot for that interview I wish you all the best uh get off the hope you get off the streets soon uh get reunited with your daughter and have a good life thank you thank you you [Music] too chJoin this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ/join Check my vlog on https://bloggervloggerselektazupa.blogspot.com/ Please subscribe to my channels English - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ Polish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONq_xGqSq1IF_MF03QWhrQ Zupa's walks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFDFcYxQfjFbksRp9g5tcA Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUliL9aCdLJKX7bEqssl_g/videos Silesian 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Meet Trevor - 20 years on the streets - Dublin, Ireland

 I met Trevor in Dublin city centre. Sorry for the audio levels. The begging is quiet bad with music in the background but it gets better when they turned the music off.

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. . Vlog in text: here you go folks we are here with Trevor who's been on the streets of Dublin for how long I don't know 20 years 20 years on enough on enough what triggered your homelessness well my mother I 7 she was 27 years of age kids and looking back in the na I re it was because she didn't have time to go to depression because she had a kid every year for for 12 years every year every year was the same dad was the same all right and she ComEd and that's really tragic how old you've been at that point you you were seven because a man is homeless doesn't mean he's abusing these substances I've been in and out of hostels and I've been living in t um so all together probably on the streets probably 5 years you say I'm not blind I'm a con artist and a fake and a phony I went into care of the hsse and I went from care home to Care Home High proportion of them are probably drugs right and cracks Caine problem and and heroin I don't when I was a kid that I had to get my sisters out of the house because the house went on fire and I was the only one that could was the rest of All underne Me My AG and my M my dad and my little brother died in the I'm an alcoholic but I haven't drank in 19 months and I went to a b time with drinking that got to Dos was seven what 17 and what happened after that after that then I started getting mixed withs feels of the gement you know and and then my little brother he was he was when he he had a lot of complications you know he had his to F his bra know he years and so yeah after 2,000 then my sister my sister captured a massive rain and that was in 2004 yeah and 2007 then was um I got clean clean clean from drugs what what drugs you talking about here H we're talking about ex and all right so I got C from that and came for 4 years and my father he committed Su your father my father as well as well yeah before all together my Suicide my father committ suici he he couldn't live with the guil in the same of you know they had a fight that day my mother committ suicide how many years after your mother was in 200 2 10 so 1 years 13 years after yeah yeah he was compl drink alcoholic you know yeah how did they die one took one took their own life thank you very much and yeah so when so that was that was start 2010 and 201 201 14 I relapsed because my sister took her only yeah she took a lot of pills yeah and yeah she was very close to me very close and yeah Su she took a lot of pills you know so Trevor uh where do you usually sleep I sleep you got like a place there on the doorway all right how you coping in the in the winter time is you still in the winter time I was I was W get into a hostel to a hostel yeah is there is there a lot of help you get from the government yeah no no hosts no because I I won't sleep in a hostel and they won't pay me soci you don't get any social money because you don't sleep in the in the hostels if you would you would get some money right that's the case I see well travor uh tell me about your like childhood growing up in in a big family like that it was in duin you grew was lot of must be cuz lots of kids all together how many rooms did you have play Jason how many rooms did you have in the house it was pretty small was there was three bedroom house three bedroom house 13 kids yeah was it in in Dublin in duin yeah that's amazing man so it was pretty good childhood till your mother took her life away yes and what about what about schooling what schools did you schooling there I went to school but I didn't finish my uh my my my my junior shirt on my here you know and again I went I went to walk at the buls as a lounge boy and then as a as a as a bar I became a bar B right yeah I to many various BS for for the for the space Maybe six years five for six years right what about..... man I'm Hess I'm I'm ch Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ/join c Check my vlog on https://bloggervloggerselektazupa.blogspot.com/ Please subscribe to my channels English - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ Polish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONq_xGqSq1IF_MF03QWhrQ Zupa's walks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFDFcYxQfjFbksRp9g5tcA Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUliL9aCdLJKX7bEqssl_g/videos Silesian Schalger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwrGNpy_d656LCARoqLexA/videos Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bartosz.strzelec.aka.zupa.tlumacz.dj.life.lover/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Selekta_Zupa Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selekta_zupa/ Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@vlogger_zupa #dublin #ireland #england #london #homeless #homelessness #uk #english #dailyvlog

From prison to the streets - meet Andy - Dublin, Ireland

 Andy had problems with drugs and law. Check this out. Join this channel to get access to perks:

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Vlog in text: Folks so we are here with Andy who's been on the streets of Dublin for how long what triggered your homelessness Andy all right and uh what drugs are what what drugs we talking about like um heroin is heroin is is a big thing in Dublin because a man is homeless doesn't mean he's abusing these substances I've been in and out of hostels and I've been living in tents um so all together probably on the streets probably 5 years you say I'm not blind I'm a con artist and a fake and a phony I went into care of the hsse and I went from care home to Care Home High proportion of them are probably drug otics right and crack otics crack cocaine the problem in and and heroin I don't when I was a kid that I had to get my sisters out of the house because the house went on fire and I was the only one that could cu the rest of them were all underneath me my age and my M my dad and my little brother died I'm an alcoholic but I haven't drank in N Dam months and uh I went to a bad time with drinking that kind to do what triggered your homelessness Andy drug addiction all right and uh what drugs are what what drugs we talking about like um heroin is heroin is is a a big thing in Dublin yeah would be would be I'm surprised it's Island and the the drugs are coming so so easily to the island don't know how they smuggle it those days but here it's around all right Andy and uh well tell me where about yourself where where you originally from lar lar okay that's the other cost isn't it down South down south lwi yeah I've heard about that place never been and you move nice place nice place beautiful town and how long ago you moved to Dublin three and a half years ago and you become homeless right away cuz you said you've been three and a half yeah 3 and half years in Dublin 3 and a half years living on on the streets no accommodation Dublin City won't do nothing for you nothing C do nothing nothing nothing nothing they don't care all right so there's there's no much help coming from the council you say just a sec I have to move all right and Andy like I've ask you about the contact if there's somebody watching this and maybe wants to help you uh you don't have any contact do you no no contact all right but people can meet you here just outside the the post office really yeah yes over there all right and tell me about you growing up in larwick how was that goodful town did you go to college no college no no uh School 15 and um ended up in prison along the way to prison is to this area that's it was how long you've done in prison um couple years down there MH biggest one was 8 years smallest one was 6 months ago coule years ago I don't know in out of prison for years the drugs got me that was it Ru everything destroyed yeah man yeah well well are you not thinking about Rehabilitation yeah I'm actually on the program at the moment you are on the program prog and how is that going yes going very well yeah very very well I haven't used in 12 months 12 and a half months ago s what did you say so I haven't used drugs in about 14 months haven't you right what about like alcohol problems don't drink Don't drink don't drink that's good man and then he said yeah then then prison and then end up on the on the streets of Dublin basically how safe is it on the streets here would you [Music] say you just have to mind what you're doing mind your business depends on what you're doing you know like everywhere else it can be good and it can be bad MH mhm and what about like a hand outs uh for homeless people I know there is something in on Grafton Street and post office they they're [Music] like sock so for fits and pieces you know you wouldn't you don't hand out Apartments they don't it's a p h what about hostelling cuz I've heard that there's actually pretty good system for people getting hostels no no it's no good system make sure where you look for one then show you where to put you that's it you might like where you go you know mhm all right Andy and uh is there any advice you could give to people you know who are messing with drugs ni it in the board and stuff before it's too late right get clean change your ways change your crowd change your surroundings basically just you know is the thing catch up and you eventually catches up you end up in this situation which you don't like okay well I hope you get better get clean and well you said you clean and uh you get help and housing soon uh and I wish you all the best Andy thanks for the interview cheers pul I'm homeless but I'm too I'm you attit me Check my vlog on https://bloggervloggerselektazupa.blogspot.com/ Please subscribe to my channels English - 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