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Nuns

Last month
March 2025
The Morning Lead
State using private law firm as nuns continue attempts to raid Shine abuse fund
A schedule of records obtained by The Journal shows 63 emails were sent or received by the Department of Health over the past year in relation to the Indemnity Agreement.
Victim says it is “very odd” that the nuns were paying half of the cost of a report that could decide if they can withdraw the funds themselves.
Saoirse McGarrigle
20 Mar
39.6k
73
Last year
2024
Allegations
Fresh claims of abuse: men say Michael Shine abused children in Drogheda orphanage
Two men have come forward to allege abuse in the institution.
Details of the claims are to be included in a dossier for the Minister for Justice.
The men want a Commission of Inquiry to be announced.
Saoirse McGarrigle
30 Sep 2024
16.6k
Louth
Planning permission granted for steel plant near monastery despite opposition from local nuns
2 Mar 2024
25.7k
30
All time
Nunbelievable
Carmelite nuns fail to obtain exemption to new land hoarding tax for Dublin monastery
26 Oct 2023
20.6k
41
Feature
‘One of the nuns called me in and said: You won’t be playing, that's a boys' game’
23 Jul 2023
8.1k
1
National Maternity Hospital
Consultant obstetrician: Women of Ireland deserve modern maternity care - we're listening to them
Prof Mary Higgins
Updated 17 May 2022
14.0k
8
National Maternity Hospital
Historian: Our distrust of religious institutions with healthcare is rooted in the past
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
Updated 7 May 2022
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52
new maternity hospital
National Maternity Hospital: Sisters of Charity urge Minister for Health to complete transfer to State
3 Jun 2021
14.8k
17
Dublin 4
Dublin nuns in planning battle to protect their right to 'worship in peace and safety'
2 Jun 2021
68.9k
48
intervention
Nun who broke planning laws to set up west Cork hermitage given until next summer to vacate premises
22 Sep 2020
28.0k
Divine Intervention
Three Irish nuns had their pensions restored after intervention by the Ombudsman
10 Oct 2019
25.6k
30
Cork
Nuns accused of 'run and grab all' as Bessborough campus put up for sale
9 Oct 2019
37.5k
46
Pope
Pope admits that priests and bishops sexually abused nuns
6 Feb 2019
28.8k
62
Smyllum Park
Nuns among 12 arrested in Scotland over abuse allegations
24 Aug 2018
50.4k
India
Mother Teresa charity 'sold babies' born to unwed mothers
5 Jul 2018
59.2k
105
Frances' story
'The nun made us put our hands on electrical panels to get an electric shock'
9 Jun 2018
89.7k
91
snownun
Everyone else give up now, these nuns in Galway have made the best Snow Sister
4 Mar 2018
20.6k
2
Hand it over
Mary Lou McDonald says the State needs to get maternity hospital site 'by any means'
30 Apr 2017
15.3k
88
St Vincent's
Holles Street board re-endorses deal to move maternity hospital
26 Apr 2017
29.6k
237
tuam babies
Gardaí should interview the surviving Bon Secour nuns over Tuam burial site, says TD
10 Mar 2017
21.9k
152
need to know why
'She sent my child away, I never saw him again': Mother tells how nun told her to 'forget' about child
8 Mar 2017
26.5k
61
left to die
'Straight away you could feel the horror of it': Nuns 'changed baby's name so he'd be easier to sell'
7 Mar 2017
47.3k
128
magdalene laundry
'It came as a big shock to find my mother was being locked in and tortured like I was'
14 Jan 2017
30.8k
35
Mississippi
"She doesn't deserve to die like this, doing God's work" - Shock after murder of nuns
27 Aug 2016
18.9k
Durant
Nuns who ran clinic in poverty-stricken Mississippi community found dead in their home
26 Aug 2016
34.3k
46
Selfless
Irish nuns stay in South Sudan to care for schoolgirls despite outbreak of violence
14 Jul 2016
14.9k
22
Telling Tales
Pope Francis tells priests and nuns to stop 'dropping gossip bombs' and to bite their tongues
3 Feb 2016
18.0k
115
perpetual adoration
Meet the order of nuns who have been praying non-stop for 137 years
7 Nov 2015
25.9k
60
unholy battle
Katy Perry wants to buy a former convent, but the nuns are having none of it
25 Jul 2015
24.8k
24
Divine Intervention
Irish nun rescued after three days stuck in a lift
9 Jun 2015
21.4k
32
Holy Show
Nuns let out of convent to meet Pope. All hell breaks loose!
23 Mar 2015
56.8k
67
Careful Now
Nuns (including one pregnant one) protest Fifty Shades screenings in Sligo and Reading
14 Feb 2015
9.2k
5
found their calling
VIDEO: Five young men and women explain why they became priests and nuns
30 Jan 2015
20.3k
72
Horrific
Three Italian nuns found brutally murdered at Burundi convent
8 Sep 2014
23.8k
47
Sister Act
These Dublin nuns have just done the holiest ice bucket challenge yet
1 Sep 2014
34.6k
37
Tragedy
Sr Paula Buckley died just days short of 50 years as a nun
15 Aug 2014
28.4k
23
Tragic
'Wonderful women': Tributes to nuns who died in Kerry swimming accident
15 Aug 2014
22.4k
17
Catholic Church
The numbers of priests and nuns in Ireland are dropping
5 Jul 2014
15.6k
212
Babies
Adoption Rights Alliance cautiously welcomes inquiry into mother and baby homes
11 Jun 2014
4.5k
39
Catholic Church
Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries
2 Mar 2014
8.7k
22
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