We need more people like James in this world!
Footballer James McClean has paid for a group of homeless people from Derry to stay in a Hotel and escape the cold.
The Stoke City and Republic of Ireland winger, 29, covered the cost of four rooms for four nights in Derry, including the cost of meals, in a gesture his father said made him “extremely proud”.
“It’s such a great thing he’s done,” Patrick McClean told the Press Association.
“James is always checking back home to see what’s going on and if he can help out.”
Patrick McClean said Derry’s homeless situation was a recent problem which they “don’t want to see getting any worse”.
“Not just footballers but anybody with any influence or with the ability” should help the cause, he added.
“When you look around and see human beings lying on street corners in this day and age, it’s shocking and unacceptable,” he said.
“It’s inhumane and people need to step up and say we don’t want it in our society.
“James can’t sort this problem on his own but what he wants is to highlight the problem and encourage anybody that can help to please step forward and do it.”
James McClean paid for the rooms from Sunday through to Wednesday night and four people accepted the offer to stay, after the McClean family searched the city centre for those in need.
