# Nuns
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Last month
March 2024
Louth
Planning permission granted for steel plant near monastery despite opposition from local nuns
2 Mar
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Last year
2023
Nunbelievable
Carmelite nuns fail to obtain exemption to new land hoarding tax for Dublin monastery
26 Oct 2023
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Feature
‘One of the nuns called me in and said: You won’t be playing, that's a boys' game’
23 Jul 2023
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All time
Voices
Consultant obstetrician: Women of Ireland deserve modern maternity care - we're listening to them
Prof Mary Higgins
Updated
17 May 2022
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Voices
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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new maternity hospital
National Maternity Hospital: Sisters of Charity urge Minister for Health to complete transfer to State
3 Jun 2021
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Dublin 4
Dublin nuns in planning battle to protect their right to 'worship in peace and safety'
2 Jun 2021
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intervention
Nun who broke planning laws to set up west Cork hermitage given until next summer to vacate premises
22 Sep 2020
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Divine Intervention
Three Irish nuns had their pensions restored after intervention by the Ombudsman
10 Oct 2019
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Frances' story
'The nun made us put our hands on electrical panels to get an electric shock'
9 Jun 2018
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snownun
Everyone else give up now, these nuns in Galway have made the best Snow Sister
4 Mar 2018
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Hand it over
Mary Lou McDonald says the State needs to get maternity hospital site 'by any means'
30 Apr 2017
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tuam babies
Gardaí should interview the surviving Bon Secour nuns over Tuam burial site, says TD
10 Mar 2017
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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
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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
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magdalene laundry
'It came as a big shock to find my mother was being locked in and tortured like I was'
14 Jan 2017
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Mississippi
"She doesn't deserve to die like this, doing God's work" - Shock after murder of nuns
27 Aug 2016
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Durant
Nuns who ran clinic in poverty-stricken Mississippi community found dead in their home
26 Aug 2016
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Selfless
Irish nuns stay in South Sudan to care for schoolgirls despite outbreak of violence
14 Jul 2016
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Telling Tales
Pope Francis tells priests and nuns to stop 'dropping gossip bombs' and to bite their tongues
3 Feb 2016
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perpetual adoration
Meet the order of nuns who have been praying non-stop for 137 years
7 Nov 2015
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unholy battle
Katy Perry wants to buy a former convent, but the nuns are having none of it
25 Jul 2015
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Careful Now
Nuns (including one pregnant one) protest Fifty Shades screenings in Sligo and Reading
14 Feb 2015
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found their calling
VIDEO: Five young men and women explain why they became priests and nuns
30 Jan 2015
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Sister Act
These Dublin nuns have just done the holiest ice bucket challenge yet
1 Sep 2014
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Babies
Adoption Rights Alliance cautiously welcomes inquiry into mother and baby homes
11 Jun 2014
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Catholic Church
Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries
2 Mar 2014
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