Loreto nun ‘humbled’ to accept humanitarian award

A Loreto nun working as a school principal in war-torn South Sudan is to be the recipient of the tenth international humanitarian award in honour of the Killarney priest, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty.

Sr Orla Treacy, from Bray, Co Wicklow, was selected from a shortlist of five nominated by the public for walking in the footsteps of the Killarney priest who was credited with operating a lifeline via the Vatican for up to 7,000 people during Nazi Occupied Rome.

Sr Orla was born in 1973 and lived in Tralee between the ages of two and six while her father Blaise Treacy was the local authority’s county secretary.