The death has been announced of social justice campaigner and homelessness advocate Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, known to many as Sr Stan. Sr Stan died on Monday morning after a short time at the St Francis Hospice, Blanchardstown. She went on to earn a bachelor of social sciences and a master’s in social policy from University College Dublin, graduating in 1969 and 1980 respectively. “People thought at that stage that there weren’t women homeless, because they were invisible, there were only men,” she said. Focus Ireland head of communications Roughan Mac Namara remembered Sr Stan as “a lively spirit” who was “years ahead of her time”.
