IRELAND
RTE News
President Michael D Higgins has congratulated survivors of Magdelene Laundries for making society listen to the terrible wrongs done to them.
He told a group of the women at Áras an Uachtaráin that he was pleased the justice of their cause had led to public acknowledgement of the enormous wrong they suffered at the hands of the State and society.
A group of 39 so-called “Magdalene women” met President Higgins at the request of Steven O’Riordan, spokesman for the Magdalene Survivors Together group.
Ten travelled from Britain for the occasion which many said they could never have predicted even in their wildest dreams.
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