Mourners urged to ‘wake up’ to crisis of homelessness

A priest has called on society to “wake up” to the plight of the homeless community, following the death of a mother-of-two whose body was discovered last week at a vacant building in Limerick.

Louise Casey, 31, a user of homelessness services, was discovered sheltering from the cold beneath a staircase at a derelict building.

Known to her family and friends as “BuBu”, she had experienced great pain at the deaths of two babies, her funeral Mass heard yesterday.