'Extraordinary' founder of Munster's missing pet helpline passes away

Elly (Lucy) O’Shea reunited thousands of missing cats and dogs through the Munster Lost and Found pet helpline in Cork which she established nearly 25 years ago

Elly Lucy O’Shea was a former backing singer with The Who andbecame well known for putting up adverts for missing pets in the Cork Echo’s Pink Pages, before the arrival of social media.

Tributes have poured in for the founder of one of the country’s most successful lost and found pet helplines who has passed away.

Elly (Lucy) O’Shea nee Vernon reunited thousands of missing cats and dogs through the Munster Lost and Found facility in Cork which she established nearly 25 years ago. The 75-year-old was born in Santa Monica, where her father was a screen writer, and her mother a ballet dancer.