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It is terrible to consider so many people dying without a home to call their own

Losing a loved one is a challenge all of us must face, but the grief is surely exponentially increased if that loved one dies alone on a street or in a laneway.

The Irish tradition of community support when someone dies is rightly celebrated and justly famous. 

From ancient rites such as keening to the customs of waking the dead, and seeing a funeral as a celebration of the deceased’s life, the Irish attitude to death is often seen as a true expression of sympathy rather than cursory consolation.