LOUIS MUM 'IN HAPPIER PLACE'

Heartfelt goodbye to 'family rock' Maureen

- BY SANDRA MALLON

LOUIS Walsh's mother Maureen is in a “happier place” after enduring 12 years of “pain and hardship” battling Alzheimer's Disease, her funeral mass heard.

Maureen Walsh passed away on Monday at the age of 94 at St Attracta's Nursing Home in Charlestown, Mayo. She had battled Alzheimer's Disease for 12 years.

Huge crowds gathered at the Church of the Holy Family in Kiltimagh to say goodbye to the Mayo native, including her famous son, Louis, who looked grief stricken as he arrived at the church behind his mother's coffin.