IRELAND
Irish MIrror
BY STEPHEN MCDERMOTT
19 APR 2017
More than 18,000 people have signed a petition to block the Sisters of Charity from becoming the owners of the new National Maternity Hospital.
There has been public outrage at the Government’s decision to hand the €300million facility to the order which ran the depraved Magdalene laundries.
The Woman’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) became the latest body to hit out at the plan despite the nuns still owing €3million towards the redress fund for abuse survivors.
NWCI spokeswoman Niamh Allen said: “NWCI is still very concerned that no solution was found for the new National Maternity Hospital that would not involve the ownership and close co-operation of a religious order.
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