A Carmelite monastery in Malahide was vandalised in broad daylight this week while the Carmelite nuns were at prayer. The nuns were verbally attacked and insulted by the assailants.
The incident happened at Star of the Sea Monastery Center.
Fr. Jimmy McPartland, co-parish priest at the nearby St. Anne’s Church in Portmarnock, announced the incident to parishioners during a morning Mass, according to Catholic News Agency.
Fr McPartland said the vandals had “desecrated” the chapel. The gang had shouted “very horrible things” about the nuns after the vandalism.
The attack is only the latest in a series of similar attacks on churches in recent times.
