Last year 115 women entered convents to become nuns. During the same period, 87 women left, 25 of them had taken their final vows. For many of the people involved, leaving a community or order can be very traumatic, so much so that now a former nun has decided to do something to help.
Report shows nuns from the Poor Servants Of The Mother Of God at prayer and singing, among them Anne Kelly who has left the order.
Anne Kelly teaching a class at Portmarnock Community School and at her home.
Interview with Anne Kelly on the trauma of leaving the convent and on her plans to help others in the same predicament.
Interview with Sister Mary O'Duffy, Poor Servants Of The Mother Of God, on Anne Kelly's departure from the order.
Nuns praying and singing.
Interview with Anne Kelly on the relationship between a religious order and someone who may have left that order.
Interview with Sister Mary O'Duffy on the need to find your vocation.
The reporter is Alasdair Jackson.
