A Dublin woman has succeeded in kicking her drug addiction after 26 years - and now she’s helping others who are where she used to be.
Charity worker Carrie Keegan, 39, was once one of the homeless people she is now helping not too long ago. Carrie started abusing drugs when she was just 12 years old, and she was out on the streets for 16 years, in and out of hostels or sleeping in tents.
After a stint in prison at the start of the pandemic, she had to take a hard look at her life. She told Dublin Live: “I decided, ‘I'm not gonna go through that again’. This was after losing everything, so I had to change something. I changed my life.”
