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Mon 03 Mar 2009Irish nun honoured for 50 years of helping street children of India
AN IRISH nun who has spent 50 years working among India’s poor has been honoured in Carlow for her lifelong commitment to education. Sr Cyril Mooney (72) from Bray, Co Wicklow, runs a number of programmes in Calcutta, which have involved an estimated 450,000 dispossessed children and adults.
She is one of the few foreigners to have received one of India’s highest honours – the Padma Shree – for her service to the country’s poor.
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