Magdalene Nuns 'Did Their Best'

Corkman
February 5, 2013

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/breaking-news/national-news/magdalene-nuns-did-their-best-3377710.html

Nuns who ran the Magdalene laundries were given a sympathetic hearing as the inquiry team noted their profound hurt over the years of public debate.

The investigation committee reported that the four religious orders in charge of workhouses regret any pain caused to women routinely stripped of their identities when locked up.

In their defence the report repeated claims from nuns involved that they did the best they could to care for the residents.

"Their position is that they responded in practical ways as best they could, in keeping with the charism of their congregations, to the fraught situations of the sometimes marginalised girls and women sent to them, by providing them with shelter, board and work," the report said.