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Members of a prayer group who are staging a sit-in at the Franciscans-owned friary in Clonmel in Co Tipperary have agreed to end their protest later today.

It also stated they had taken steps to ensure the friary will remain open and that the "church belongs to the people of Clonmel and we intend that it remain so". The sit-in is also now a sleep-in, ...