Sisters’ 40 years of care for women in need

It was 1972 and Sr Colette Hickey of the Good Shepherd Sisters saw an urgent need to provide a shelter for women and children in Cork who couldn’t remain in their own homes due to domestic violence.

Sisters’ 40 years of care for women in need

And so she opened a refuge in the Mardyke providing a place of safety for families too terrified to remain at home.

But once she had opened the night shelter, she realised she was casting these families adrift by day: releasing them onto the streets so they could loiter around the back of churches and wander in and out of shops repeatedly with kids in tow.

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