IRELAND
Irish Mirror
27 SEP 2015
BY JAMES WARD
A Magdalene survivor whose mother is buried in a mass grave had the door slammed in her face on a visit to the Department of Justice.
In July, we revealed Mary Collins’ Traveller mum Angela was snatched from the side of the road and forced into the hated laundries for 27 years, only to die after not receiving proper medical treatment.
She was buried in a mass grave alongside 72 other women, where she remains today.
In her ongoing campaign for justice, Mary arranged for a meeting with the Justice Department to deliver a letter about her family’s plight, only for the doors to be locked upon her arrival.
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