Dearbhail McDonald: Nuns’ positive contribution risks remaining tarnished forever

Ceramic blossom flowers planted at the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, with the figure of a baby’s head in each of them.  Picture: Ray Ryan

LIKE many women of my generation on this island, I was educated by nuns.

It may seem counterintuitive — courageous, even — to admit that the Sisters of St Clare in Newry were the first feminists I met.