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An online petition to block The Sisters of Charity from owning the new national maternity hospital has got thousands of signatures overnight.
18,000 people have added their names to the protest, set up after the religious order was revealed as the new owner of the facility due to be built in Dublin.
Emily Duffy, spokesperson for Uplift who are behind the petition, said it was rare for such a petition to get so much attention so quickly.
“ This is an issue that people in Ireland are clearly outraged about – it’s rare we see a petition go viral so rapidly, and it shows that people are deeply troubled by the State’s utter disregard for the many victims of abuse which took place in institutions run by orders such as the Sisters of Charity.”
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