‘Hard to sleep in a bed with homeless on street outside’

A Kerry-born nun who spent her life helping people affected by addiction found she could not rest easy in her bed in Dublin last weekend, knowing there were homeless people lying on the ground outside.

Eileen Fitzgerald, aged 78, better known as Sr Consilio, founded Cuan Mhuire, a charitable drug, alcohol and gambling rehabilitation organisation, in Ireland 50 years ago.

The Sister of Mercy is now on a mission to provide a place where homeless people with drug habits can be enticed to stay and deal with their problems.