JOSEF PAVELKA died last week, a celebrity and a ‘nobody’.

A priest told mourners for the late homeless man Josef Pavelka last night it is not a time to be angry, but a time to remember “a real legend of a man we all knew”.

One of the priests involved in the care of the late Josef Pavelka says we must ensure that no other homeless person in Ennis dies in similar circumstances.

The best friend of the late homeless man Josef Pavelka, who came to national attention because they both had to sleep in a public toilet, said Josef was his fourth friend to die from drinking too much alcohol “and I don’t want to be the fifth to die from drinking”.

A post mortem examination has taken place on the body of a homeless man found dead in Ennis over the weekend.

The body of homeless man, Josef Pavelka — whose plight received national attention after it emerged he was living in a public toilet — was found in a laneway in Ennis at the weekend.

The two homeless men who were living in public toilets in Ennis now have “celebrity status” in the town with people wanting to have their photo taken with them.

Two homeless men who were living in public toilets in Ennis have prematurely vacated emergency accommodation in Galway and returned to homelessness on the streets of the Clare county town.