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.

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.