Relief of Vindicated Survivors Gives Way to Anger at Kenny

Irish Independent
February 6, 2013

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/relief-of-vindicated-survivors-gives-way-to-anger-at-kenny-3377881.html

The Attorney General Maire Whelan was involved in yesterday's cabinet deliberations about the 1,000-page report by former senator Martin McAleese.

But the Government has refused to say if Mr Kenny has been advised against delivering an apology for legal reasons.

The report has thrown new light on the operation of the 10 Magdalene Laundries in the State between 1922 and 1996. It confirmed, by examining the books of the religious orders, that 10,000 women had been in the laundries over that period – significantly fewer than the previous estimate of 30,000.

It exploded the myth that most of them were prostitutes or unmarried mothers who had their babies there and said the women went into the laundries for a variety of reasons.