Sr Philomena O’Sullivan honoured for her lifelong dedication to missionary nursing

Sr Philomena O'Sullivan, a Columban sister originally from North Cork, has been named June Cork Person of the Month in recognition of her fifty years work as a nursing missionary in Korea.

Sr Philomena trained as a nurse at Mercy University Hospital in Cork from 1949.

She left for Korea in June 1955 with Sister Mary David Mannion and spent six months in Mokpo before moving to the northern part of the country where she and her colleagues established a Clinic Foundation.