Clondalkin woman (43), who was homeless and found unresponsive in a tent in Dublin, remembered at service by family and friends. This was where the funeral mass of Natasha Smith (43) took place on Friday morning, one week after she was found unresponsive in a tent on Pearse Street in Dublin city centre. A family member carries a photograph of Natasha Smith as she walks alongside her coffin at the funeral in Clondalkin on Friday. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins“We loved swinging around the pole on ropes but none of us could climb it like Tasha. Lee and Stephen were her life.”Her women relatives escorted Natasha “Tasha” Smith out of the church, to Tracy Chapman’s song Across the Lines.

Source: The Irish Times January 23, 2026 19:56 UTC