Homeless man Paul ‘was so respectful and so quiet’

The brother of a homeless man who died while sleeping on the streets of Cork said there is a grieving family behind each of these tragedies.

Gerard Sheehan spoke out yesterday a day after his brother Paul’s funeral to tell people his family did what they could to help him and were driving the streets looking for him on the night he died.

Gerard said his “gentle soul” brother struggled with alcohol addiction from an early age, had been through treatment, and had turned down several offers of help, preferring to spend time on his own.