The avid campaigners at Apollo House in Dublin, have received strong support today after a number of the country’s top music acts performed at the makeshift homeless shelter.
The campaign which has to led many people sleeping rough at the iconic building over the past number of nights received a huge amount of support this afternoon when singers Glen Hansard, Hozier, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Christy Dignam, along with the band Kodaline unexpectedly performed a lunchtime gig.
It is understood over a 1,000 people crowded into Poolbeg Street a small side street below the vacant office building to watch the well known acts perform a number of songs in support of the cause to use the vacant office building as a much needed homeless shelter.
The act performed a number of songs including ‘This Land Is your Land’, ‘Crazy World’, ‘The Auld Triangle’, ‘The Times They are A Changing’, ‘High Hopes and All I Want.
The well known musicians along with film director Jim Sheridan also engaged the crowd with a rendition of Bob Marley’s Get Up, Stand Up, before Hozier finished the performance with rendition of his own hit Take Me To Church.
The whole makeshift concert which lasted nearly two hours had the onlooking crowd singing along to the music, cheering, clapping in support of the cause.