Window overlooking convent must be blocked

A businessman and his wife whose main bedroom window overlooks a “hermit-like” enclosed order of nuns have been told by a judge to block it up.

John and Ita Murray, of 120 Wesbury, Upper Kilmacud Rd, Stillorgan, Dublin, had been sued on breach of privacy grounds by the sisters of the Carmelite Order at Kilmacud.

James Doherty, counsel for the nuns, told Judge Jacqueline Linnane that the Murrays built an extension to their home which included a window overlooking the convent and grounds.