Martina Purdy, is a former print and TV journalist currently training to be a nun. Born in Belfast, she moved at an early age with her family to Canada in 1971. She earned a degree in international relations from the University of Toronto after working in local journalism in Ireland, she returned to Canada for postgraduate study at the Ryerson School of Journalism.^[1] Purdy was a business editor with the Irish News and then the Belfast Telegraph, before joining the BBC in 1999, and becoming the political correspondent for BBC Northern Ireland Television.^[2] In 2014 she left the BBC to become a nun with the Sisters of Adoration, on the Falls Road, in West Belfast, along with former Barrister Elaine Kelly.^[3] In 2019 due to the convent not having enough nuns meeting the church's rules, she and another trainee nun left formation.^[4] In 2020 she became a guide for the St. Patricks' Way, at the St. Patrick's Centre, Downpatrick^[5] In 2021, moved to continue her formation as a nun this time with Poor Clares monastery at Faughart, north of Dundalk, in Co Louth.^{[citation needed]}