STRAIGHT-talking Sister Rita Lee is back on the BBC with a new series of Sister Rita to the Rescue - and she's living up to her nickname Attila the Nun.
While the series follows Manchester-based Sister Rita and her team as they try to help people struggling with a range of difficulties including debt, and managing on benefits, the Irish woman has set herself a new challenge.
Determined to establish a way of supplying the Lalley Centre’s food bank with a continuous supply of fresh fruit and vegetables, she sets up an allotment to get the community eating more healthily.
"There's a brand new allotment that's opened and it's ginormous," she told The Irish Post when asked about the Collyhurst-based centre.
"It was wasteland owned by the council," Sr Rita said. "We didn't have enough space to grow vegetables for the food bank so we decided that we'd ask permission to use it and they gave it to us."
"It's a flourishing allotment," she added.
Sister Rita says her formidable reputation - often coined Attila the Nun - is down to her personality and her hatred of exploitation on any level.
"I didn't even know who Attila the Hun was," Sister Rita said. "I thought he was a Disney character. When I found that out I thought 'wow, I've got a name to live up to here'."
She added: "We're all given a personality when we're born and you can't just change it like you can have a face lift, can you?
"You have to put up with it and use it, that's me, I'm very straight with people and I know exactly what they're up to."
"I think when you're very young, you're a bit cautious about what you're saying, as you have a fear of authority," she added, "or a fear of people who are somebody and think you're nobody."
"Then as you get a bit older you think well, we're all created by God, why should I be cowering down to anyone, so I don't."
Viewers will see Sister Rita see red this series as she hears rumours that some of the food from the food bank is being sold at a local market, forcing her to introduce a new system to stop people taking advantage.
"I hate exploitation on any level and I won't allow it," she said.
Sister Rita - who celebrated a milestone 50 years as a nun last year - explains that not just anyone can "roll up in a car" to the food bank - there is a process.
"If you roll up in a car don't come looking to me for food, you won't get it," she said. "If it's a disability car that's different but if you can afford to pay tax and insurance and upkeep and petrol or diesel or whatever, you shouldn't really be coming down to us."
"Some people might be a couple but they'll come in as two separate people, and they'll say we need such and such, but it doesn't work like that."
"We have an interview and an assessment where we'll ask about you, who lives in your house, where you live, and if your children go to school, just normal ordinary questions, very gently."
"You know the ones who are really struggling, so I would be much softer with them because they've been through enough. There are people who are out to exploit and I won't accept that," she added.
A native of Cork city, Sister Rita left her hometown in Ireland at the age of 17 and headed to Britain where she joined the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a convent originally started in her home county by Nano Nagle in 1775.
As for what's next, she says she's about to open three shops near the Lalley Centre.
"We're opening three 'good as new' shops in Collyhurst and will hopefully have one of those shops up and running in November," she said.
"So the people will have somewhere to go to buy things for Christmas and we've been given some lovely items to sell too."
