Locals are still in shock and questions are yet to be answered days after degenerates broke into the tranquil Star of the Sea Carmelite Nuns monastery in Malahide and vandalised the church.
The thugs managed to gain entry to the Monastery around 1PM last Monday afternoon and then went on to damage the chapel and shout vile slurs at the nuns who were present.
While this chapel is normally open to the public after this attack and desecration it will no longer be so in the future.
Local TD Darragh O’Brien described the incident as “disgraceful” and said that the incident demonstrated the need to reopen Malahide Garda Station, whose services were significantly downgraded by the Fine Gael government in 2012, on a 24/7 basis.
Over the past number of years there have been a series of attacks on Catholic churches and statues throughout the country, including Michael’s and St Anne’s, Curry, Church in Longford, in 2018 and 2017 and defacing of oratory and Holy Cross in the Comeragh mountains.
Also, of note was the decapitation of the marble statue of Catholic Archbishop Patrick Leahy situated outside Thurles Cathedral.
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