Shut out at Xmas; EXCLUSIVE Homeless tell of their despair as 6,000 spend festive season on streets while council boards up empty flats.(News)

The Mirror (London, England) | December 22, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: ALAN CROGHAN

TWENTY-six one-bedroom apartments worth nearly EUR4million will be boarded up this Christmas - as 6,000 men, women and children spend the festive season on the streets.

Many of the 144 Dublin City Council flats in Coolock on Dublin's Northside are occupied by long-term residents.

But at least 26 will remain shut.

We asked four homeless people for their thoughts on the scandal - and how there will be no joy for them this Christmas.

EDDIE BLACK has been on the streets for eight years and had one simple ...

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