WHILE IT ADMITTEDLY felt entirely dehumanising behaviour that would only be embraced by complete sociopaths, Meath native Brian Tiernan has finally gotten the hang of completely ignoring the homeless population of Dublin City.
“At first I was like ‘these desperate people who have nothing deserve my eye contact at the very least and my help to lift them out of their situation’, but turns out it only takes a couple of weeks for Dublin to grind the humanity out of you,” Tiernan said.
A man who weeks ago would have called you a liar if you said he would perfect the 1,000-yard stare that is the hallmark of Dubliners ignoring a person’s desperate pleading for help, Tiernan now concedes it feels almost like second nature.
“And sure, I have pangs of ‘fuck me, this is depressing’ now and again but that only motivates me to walk home a certain way from work so I don’t have to see much of it,” Tiernan explained, the small town naivety all be stripped from his bones.
While Tiernan recognised the recurring kerbside presences on his daily lunch run in work, the extent to which the 25-year-old has followed the lead of the city’s inhabitants means homeless people now resemble an imperceptible smudge on his glasses.
However, some doubts remain over Tiernan’s acclimatisation to Dublin life until such a time as he begins to actively give out about how his tax money is being wasted on these people.
