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Sir,

If the amount of used masks and gloves discarded on our footpaths is an indication of how concerned we are for one another, we have a long way to go!
Yours, etc,

ALICE LEAHY,
Dublin 6.

It’s quieter in our reception area these days. We have reopened the doors of the Alice Leahy Trust on Dublin’s Bride Road with new practices for Covid times. We take temperatures, wear visors and ask everyone to wash their hands after they come in our basement door.

The first person back to us when we reopened hadn’t had a shower since we closed in March. He said he had been washing in streams or public toilets whenever he could. We were the only place where he felt he could have a shower or soak his feet. So he went without. Read the full article here