IRELAND
The Irish Times
Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times
Marie O’Halloran
Mon, Jun 10, 2013
Survivors of the Magdalene laundries have described as “utterly pointless” a reported recommendation that there should be a reconciliation forum between them and the religious orders who ran the institutions.
A reconciliation forum and mediation are among a number of recommendations RTÉ has claimed are in the report prepared by a retired High Court judge, appointed to advise the Government on a redress scheme for women and girls held in the laundries.
The national broadcaster suggested that under the proposed forum survivors and nuns from the four religious orders who ran them could meet and discuss their experience.
But one of the organisations representing some 75 survivors has insisted they will not participate in any such forum which was a repetition of a process their members had been prepared to go through two years ago but which the religious orders refused to participate in.
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