The 40-year-old charity that ensures no-one dies alone and poor

A new book chronicles the first 40 years of the charity that ensures no-one dies alone and poor anymore, says Helen O’Callaghan

At the National Library of Ireland for the launch of ‘ALONE; The First 40 Years’ was author , Valerie Cox, left, with service users Ann McCuley and Mary Connolly. Picture: Jason Clarke

It was an annual feature of Valerie Cox’s childhood in 1950s Dublin: the pre-Christmas visit to the tall, old building, with creaky floorboards, that housed the Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers’ Society. It was in a laneway near Dublin Castle.