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Window on Wicklow Episode 71: Bray Area Rough Sleepers Support

By Jamie Ryan · East Coast FM · 3 November 2026

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Jamie Ryan joins volunteers from Bray Area Rough Sleepers Support (BARSS) on their nightly soup run, providing food and essential supplies to people experiencing homelessness and hardship.

Jamie Ryan joins volunteers from Bray Area Rough Sleepers Support (BARSS) on their nightly soup run. Volunteers Angela O’Donnell and Michael Walby explain how the service operates, while people using the service share what the support means to them. The group operates 365 days a year, relying entirely on community donations.

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Reporting by Jamie Ryan for East Coast FM, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.

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