Nun given until June to move from West Cork home after breaching planning laws

Sr Irene Gibson, Carmelite Nun of the Holy Face of Jesus,  leaving Skibbereen District Court today with Sr Anne Marie of the Holy Family Carmelite Hermitage, Leap, Co Cork. Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

A Carmelite Nun has been given until June to relocate from the unauthorised compound where she has set up home, while Cork County Council has been asked to investigate alternative lodgings for her and her colleague in the order.

Sr Irene Gibson, a Carmelite Nun of the Holy Face of Jesus, had been convicted of a breach of section 154 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, last December in relation to an unauthorised development at Corran South near the village of Leap in West Cork.