Magdalene Group Say Report Omits Galway Records

Galway News
February 5, 2013

http://www.galwaynews.ie/30200-magdalene-group-say-report-omits-galway-records

The committee set up to inquire into the Magdalen laundries has found clear evidence of state involvement in the religious run work houses.

it notes that there was a legal basis for the way the State operated.

The report, written under the chairmanship of Senator Martin McAleese, finds that more than a quarter of 10-thousand women who entered the laundries were referred there by the State.

However, according to Justice for Magdalenes the statistics compiled by the Senator omit the records of the Mercy run Galway and Dun Laoighre magdalene laundries.

The sisters of mercy operated the magdalene laundry at Forster street in the city.

But it paints a more benign picture of life in the laundries than may be popularly believed.

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