NORTHERN IRELAND
Derry Now
January 28, 2021
By Garrett Hargan
A simple headstone at Ardmore Cemetery in Derry commemorates the dates five former residents of the Good Shepherd’s Laundry died.
They, along with hundreds of others, worked in the local laundry without pay.
Some women spent a lifetime in the institution, died and were buried from there in unmarked or ‘communal’ graves.
This week these women and girls, along with thousands more, were described as the ‘voiceless’ who will finally have their stories heard following the announcement of an independent investigation.
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