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| | Observer | Mother superior |
 | | The new name, bestowed on her by the renegade Irish Bishop Michael Cox when he ordained her in 1999, marks the latest chapter in a career characterised by controversy. |
 | | In 1992, during an interview on the American television show Saturday Night Live, she famously ripped up a picture of the Pope, again supposedly to draw attention to child abuse. |
 | | In retrospect, too, her outspokenness, though often unfocused and uncomfortable to behold, prefigured the collective testimonies that have issued forth from Ireland in the past decade, uncovering the systematic abuse of the church, and the familial violence that marked the old Ireland almost as much as the tribal and religious wars that accompanied it. |
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