The State workplace watchdog has recommended that a group of nuns pay a former domestic and print worker €2,000 for the procedural unfairness in how her employment was ended.

Not many court cases begin with a judicial request for the removal of a statue of the Child of Prague from the courtroom, but here it set the tone.

The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary have decided to sell a 40-acre estate in Cork which accommodates a range of services for vulnerable families and children.

Two Catholic nuns have admitted embezzling about half a million dollars from a school in California.

No rest for the wicked or the heavenly.

Sister Act eat you heart out.

Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire, any of these might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who nonetheless say nothing has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds of thousands of people for the last 137 years.

Katy Perry is locked in a real estate battle with a group of nuns.

The UN must be involved in any inquiry into Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes scandal, a rally in Cork was told yesterday.

THE Ryan and Cloyne reports into child abuse in the Catholic Church could be seen in simple black and white terms: It was easy to loathe the abusers and the parish priests and bishops who colluded to protect them, to shudder at how bereft and powerless the child victims were, and at the torment of parents when they learned what had gone on around them.

"How we react to how society endorsed, at least tacitly, this latest episode in the Irish Holocaust is by far the bigger and more pressing question."

I’ve got to thinking lately that this little country of ours should scrap the title ‘Isle of Saints and Scholars’, and instead be known as the ‘Island of Immaculate Conceptions’.

A new inquiry is going to be set up to investigate yet another national scandal — that of the dumping of nearly 800 remains of babies in a cesspit in holy Catholic Ireland.

Re the Tuam babies, while it’s appropriate to focus on the role of the Government and the institutions concerned, perhaps we can look closer to home, and specifically to the grandparents who, for reasons of little more than quasi-Victorian social propriety, bullied their children into handing over their grandchildren to uncaring strangers with the implicit instructions: "do as you wish with them".

We Irish are surely a strange race of people, always craving some horrible aspect of our past or present with which to make a spectacle of ourselves before the world.

Detailed 80-year-old legislation gave Government a clear right to all records on child deaths and adoptions in mother-and-baby homes as they happened — but allowed "charities" to exempt themselves from the oversight.

The religious orders involved in the mother-and-baby homes scandal should be made to pay for an inquiry into what went on, TDs have demanded.

AS horrific as it is, the dumping ground for hundreds of dead babies at the Bon Secours home in Tuam should not be the focal point of our concern, but rather how they ended up there, and why no one cared for so long.

THE Tuam babies story this week says much about the past, but about the present also.

Amnesty International has joined a growing chorus of calls for a full-scale inquiry into the operation of mother-and-baby homes.

The religious order behind three of Ireland’s largest and most notorious mother-and-baby homes is unable to confirm how many children were buried on the sites or if they were all buried in coffins.