Laois woman who died on the streets of Dublin to be laid to rest tomorrow

A Laois woman who died on the streets of Dublin will be laid to rest tomorrow. 

Ann Delaney, Dromagh, Crettyard, was found on Sunday, February 25  near the Tesco Express on Aungier Street.

The 47-year-old had been sleeping rough in Dublin city centre for about seven years. She has been remembered as a kind soul by outreach workers and many members of the public who knew her.

“Ann, I've walked by you hundreds, thousands of times. I always looked for you when I passed Tesco on the bus and you always had company. Your friends, locals, workers from Tesco, and you made them all laugh and their day brighter. Any day you weren't there, the city noticed, when I saw the news yesterday and learned more about you, it brought tears to my eyes. Dublin loved you, although I never stopped to talk to you, I always wished you well in my own way and felt a warm energy about you. You will be missed so much and you probably don't even realise by how many. Rest in peace Ann,” wrote someone in tribute.

Another person wrote: “As a young nurse, it is harrowing to hear of Ann’s decline onto hard times. She was well loved, well received and the plentiful stories of positive attributes flooding in are only what I can imagine are a fraction of her character. The world was not ready for you Ann.”

She was the beloved daughter of Mary and the late Tom. Sadly missed by her loving daughter Saoirse, mother, brothers Thomas, John, Ciaran and Paul, sisters Siobhán, Tricia, Roisin and Emer, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, relatives and a wide circle of friends.

Funeral Mass will take place on Thursday morning (Feb 29) at 12noon in St. Abban’s Church, Doonane (R93 AT86). Burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.