NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
Residents of Magdalene Laundries have met with Northern Ireland’s Junior Ministers, to call for a new inquiry into their allegations of abuse.
Neither group is included in the current Historic Institutional Abuse inquiry, which is investigating claims of mistreatment at 35 sites across Northern Ireland.
The campaigners, along with Amnesty International, discussed their calls for a new inquiry with Jonathan Bell and Jennifer McCann.
Michael Connolly is part of the Clerical Abuse NI campaign. As a child, was abused by a priest in Co Fermanagh.
He said: “I would not want to raise the expectations of clerical abuse victims throughout Northern Ireland, but I did take away from that meeting quite a positive response.
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