Apology for Magdalene Laundry Women

Corkman
February 5, 2013

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/breaking-news/national-news/apology-for-magdalene-laundry-women-3376973.html

The Irish Government has apologised to the thousands of women locked up in Catholic-run workhouses known as Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996.

As an inquiry found 2,124 of those detained in the institutions were sent by the authorities, Taoiseach Enda Kenny expressed his sympathies with survivors and the families of those who have died.

"To those resident who went into the Magdalene laundries from a variety of ways, 26% from state involvement, I'm sorry for those people that they lived in that kind of environment," he said.

Records have confirmed that 10,012 women spent time in Magdalene laundries across the country between 1922 and 1996.