Hundreds gather for funeral of Irish man who died alone in London

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Dublin to pay their final respects to Joseph Tuohy who died in Islington, north London after a life bereft of familial care, from the tender age of four and a half.

An elderly Irish man who died alone in London was remembered for the “man he was and lives he touched” by strangers who never met him but honoured his memory at his Funeral Mass today.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at St Joseph’s Church in Glasthule, Co Dublin to pay their final respects to 87-year-old Tipperary native Joseph Tuohy who died in Islington, north London after a life bereft of familial care, from the tender age of four and a half.