Senior doctor resigns over plan to give Dublin hospital to order of nuns

Dr Peter Boylan condemns plan to transfer ownership to Sisters of Charity, which ran notorious ‘Magdalene laundries’ One of Ireland’s most respected obstetricians has resigned from the board of a maternity hospital over plans to transfer its ownership to a religious order that ran institutions where women were enslaved and children abused for decades.
Secular campaigners have been leading the opposition to the government’s plan – which emerged earlier this month &nd