An online petition to block The Sisters of Charity from owning the new national maternity hospital has got thousands of signatures overnight.
18-thousand 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.
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The Sisters of Charity have so far failed to pay their share of funds to a redress scheme for the victims of institutional abuse.
However the Health Minister has reassured patients they won’t have any religious influence in the hospital.
