Overview
- The Religious Sisters of Charity said she died this morning at St Francis Hospice in Blanchardstown.
- She founded Focus Point in 1985 after UCD research into women’s homelessness, later building Focus Ireland into a national charity.
- She also established the Immigrant Council of Ireland and served as the first chair of the Combat Poverty Agency.
- Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris praised her decades of advocacy for people on the margins.
- Coverage notes the Ryan Report finding of 1970s abuse by two lay workers at St Joseph’s in Kilkenny, where she lived and worked, which she said in 2020 she had not known about.