3,000 poor and homeless people will be fed from the RDS today - more than double the demand just four years ago.
The Order of the Knights of St Columbanus offers a three course Christmas meal, with free buses running from the Mansion House, Clery's and the Four Courts.
It’s been a festive tradition for nearly one hundred years.
There are 500 sit down dinners this year, and 2 thousand 500 take away meals - that’s two and a half times the demand just four years ago.
One of the volunteers, Katie Hogan, says it’s a really special day at the RDS;
