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Sat 03 Mar 2007Irish nun receives one of India's highest honoursA 71-year-old Irish nun was yesterday awarded one of India's highest honours, rarely bestowed on foreigners, for her contribution to education and social services among the country's poor for more than 50 years.At a ceremony in the imposing sandstone presidential palace in the capital New Delhi, Sr Cyril Mooney, a Loreto nun from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), was conferred with the Padma Shree by India's president, A P J Abdul Kalam.