When he was around five-years-old, Joseph Tuohy was ripped from his mother’s arms. It was a moment that shaped the rest of his life.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Dublin to pay their final respects to Joseph Tuohy who died in Islington, north London after a life bereft of familial care, from the tender age of four and a half.

Joesph Tuohy, 87, originally from Toomevara, in Co Tipperary passed away during the summer after spending the majority of his working life there.

An appeal has been made for mourners for an elderly Irish man who died alone in London and who is to return to his final resting place later this month.

FOR others the anguish of a missing relative is still going on.