"The young nurse who saw a need in the Dublin of the 1970’s and set out to meet that, I’m sure had no idea that the challenge would endure and grow into the twenty first century, but it has. Now our city is inhabited by a small army of men, women, and sometimes even children, for whom the open skies are a roof.
For some it is a choice, some live rough out of fear or necessity. Alice Leahy was never judgemental, believing that a misfortune, a loss, an illness, a shame, can cut a person adrift from friends and family.
The Trust extends the hand of friendship to allcomers to Bride Road, where a welcome, a wash, a change of clothes, a cup of tea, a chat, are the order of the day.
If we didn’t have Alice Leahy, we’d have to invent her!"
PAT KENNY
