Home Sweet Home Activist Dean Scurry Calls For Social Media Response

Yesterday, Hot Press spoke to Dean Scurry, one of the activists who sparked the decision to occupy Apollo House in the centre of Dublin, to set up a refuge for people who have been homeless.

In the interview Dean talks about the genesis of Home Sweet Home; about how things are developing in Apollo House; and about where he hopes the movement can go from here. In the interview, conducted by Anne Sexton and shot and edited by Rowan Stokes, he also looks to social media to help amplify the message which Home Sweet Home feel is vital to the whole adventure on which they have embarked: that is the centrality of love to human interaction.

"What we’d like people to do,” he tells Hot Press, “is to produce a video – it can be done in ten minutes ‘cos we’re in the digital age – that shows love; that has an image on it that says 'We are Home Sweet Home' – and share that around the world.

"Let’s use social media for something that is really, really fun and loving and interesting,” he adds.

There’s a whole lot more in what is a fascinating insight into this fledgling movement, which was set up to bring an end to homelessness in Ireland and has the support of a huge number of musicians, entertainers and film-makers including Glen Hansard, Christy Moore, Hozier, Damien Dempsey, Christy Dignam, Conor O’Brien of Villagers, Liam Ó Maonlaí of Hot House Flowers, Frances Black, Panti Bliss, Saoirse Ronan and Jim Sheridan.