Steve Reeves is the cockney stranger more than four decades his junior who stumbled into Hopkins’s life four years ago and utterly transformed it. Steve Reeves’ photographs of 101 year old Irish man Micheal Hopkins in London. The photographer began documenting Hopkins’s life, and with his consent, shared updates with his online community. [ The older Irish in London should not die aloneOpens in new window ]Hopkins calls the church volunteers “the nuns”, even though they are no such thing. He just seems to symbolise something.”Michael Hopkins and Steve Reeves at Gatwick airport in London.

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2026 13:32 UTC