Funeral of city’s disability advocate

THE funeral took place in Limerick yesterday of the women who pioneered the development of services for children with disabilities in the mid-west in founding St Gabriel’s centre.

Wyn Crabtree’s lifelong campaign resulted in the opening of a modernised St Gabriel’s School & Centre in Dooradoyle in 1997.

Born in Yorkshire in 1915, she came to Limerick in 1934 with her parents when her father took up the position of general manager with the Limerick Clothing Company.