Ann Delaney was a kind and soft spoken nurse, mother and poet. She was also homeless

Ann Delaney, whose passing away on a Dublin street recently has touched the lives of many. Picture: RIP.ie

Sitting in a doorway on a cold winter’s night, Ann Delaney stretched out her arm and placed a piece of paper into the hand of a passerby who had helped her.

Inside, in neat handwriting, was a poem Ann had written. “A word ya know, can harm, can charm, can be silent like the universal ...virtue of kindness c (with) out ignorant blindness, "Simply".