As gardai attended the scene early this morning a sheet covered the man’s body in the lane.
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He asked members of the public to report locations where people are sleeping rough to www.homelessdublin.ie so that staff can visit them. It is understood the dead man regularly slept in a nearby laneway.
The man was found at Dawson Lane at approx 7am.
Gardaí are not treating the death as suspicious.
“An Garda Siochana cannot yet comment on whether the man was homeless or not”.
There is no suspicion of foul play and it is believed the man died suddenly.
It is understood the man had been dead for a number of hours before his body was discovered.
The Dublin Simon Community said it had this week counted 124 people bedding down in the city and this did not include an additional 50-60 people accessing a night cafe service each night.
“We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of another person who was sleeping rough in Dublin”.
The tragedy occurred less than a year after Jonathan Corrie, another homeless man, was found dead in a doorway on Molesworth Street, within yards of Leinster House.
“The scale of the problem is unprecedented and the situation is worse than December 2014, where rough sleeping figures were the highest since counts began”, the organisation said.
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And the number of families sleeping rough in Dublin is up 106pc.
