“The same thing could happen again. There is absolutely no reason why it wouldn’t,” says James Larkin, who commutes by bike past the spot near the new children’s hospital building site.

“Your ideas are very very good and I will definitely be looking at them more,” said Dublin City Council Senior Engineer Neil O’Donoghue to one local resident.

The quality standards for homeless services are comprehensive and say they apply to all state-funded hostels. But some TDs have dug a bit deeper.

The Santry Whitehall Forum want the empty old Hanging Garment Factory refashioned into a community centre, given the many high-rises planned for the area.

Trevor Woods makes mixed media collages, melding pop culture references with computer paraphernalia such as floppy disks and keyboards.

“The video for ‘Up De Flats’ is a show of hometown pride in a corner of the city too often degraded and denigrated.”

“We all need to continue to follow public health guidance … But the government must encourage compliance by appealing to our sense of the common good not by threatening us with sticks and sanctions.”