Clodagh Finn: Imagine a Church in which Sr Stan had been a bishop

It is time that the work of women who improved so many people’s lives is at least acknowledged in the hierarchy of the Church they served

Sr Stan set up numerous organisations, transforming the lives of thousands of people.

There have been multiple tributes to the towering legacy left behind by Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, a social justice campaigner who “started things with nothing”, as she put it herself, but went on to achieve so much.

She cut a swathe through the red tape of civil society to set up numerous organisations, transforming the lives of thousands. There was much opposition. Former taoiseach Charlie Haughey, for instance, once described her as the most intransigent woman he had ever met.