Ian King

Tonight we arrived at the soup run a little before six and everything went smoothly. We saw a guy and his film crew near Penneys and he approached to find out how long we were going to be. He informed us that he has a permit to use the road to park their film trucks because they had a few trucks coming in. We informed him that we lead a soup run with the Musim Sisters of Eire and that there were a few cars coming in after us including a van full of food. He didn’t seem happy and we let him know that we feed around 350 every Friday night and that we would try and be done by 8pm. He was then fine with our recommendation. Even though we have been running the soup run for 8 years, we can be asked to leave at anytime which can prove to be difficult especially being an HSE registered soup run and a registered charity. Once we arrived, we immediately put up the tables and the team was briefed on what to do. The soup run went really well, we gave out 400 meals tonight and experienced no issues. A detective from Fitzgibbons Street came up to ask to keep an eye out for a young French guy who came over with a group of tourists and is now missing. He’s tall, about 6ft, has sallow looking skin and brown hair. He doesn’t speak English and was last seen walking by the Rotunda wearing a blue pair of jeans with a dark jacket, a black pack and a blue piece of carry on luggage. We let the detective know that we’d keep an eye out for him. If you have any information, please contact the Store Street Police Station. With all that, we finished on time. At the end, three men who were sleeping in tents approach us and let us know that they were hungry and we handed out meals to them. A big shoutout to an American student and her brother who are visiting Ireland for the next 10 days who volunteered for us this week. We can’t continue our work without your support. If you would like to help us or donate, please visit msoe.ie/donate/.