Poor Clare nuns - Embracing technology

Celebrating the 800th anniversary of its formation, the enclosed contemplative order of the Poor Clare nuns has embraced the internet as a means of reaching out to the world.

The eight nuns living in the Poor Clare Colettine monastery in Cork allowed a television crew to film them at prayer for the first time.

The mother abbess stressed that they did not wish their new website to draw attention to them, but to draw attention to God.