Glad they got their deserved apology.

Glad.they finally got their apology , however it seems in the vast amount of cases the victims families are more to blame , the priests , teachers , the cruelty man , it seems it was a horrible society

I’m still waiting for the Church to come out and say “sorry” and also contribute generously towards the welfare and health expenses of these heroic women.

Kenny did a good job on this, fair play.

So nobody knew about this? The government did it in secret, in collusion with the Church. Really weird.

The State has made a delayed but apparently sincere apology.

Will the religious orders now put aside the qualifications, reservations and explanations of different times an offer a real and unqualified apology.

I suppose that being a Roman Catholic Order means never having to say that you are truly sorry.

I was fortunate enough to meet some of the group of Magdalen women tonight who were having a muted celebration near the dail. They were a great bunch of kind people who were let down by our country, and I hope today’s events help them in some way, though more should be done. Survivors of slavery and imprisonment with out trial or appeal deserve respect and support from our modern state.

This whole magdalene scandal would make you ashamed of this countrys fairly recent past. Forced labour forced on working class and girls from poor families to do the laundry of the middle classes. And as the woman who wrote the penitents book said on vincent brown tonight”only for the advancement of the domestic washing machine we would still have these laundries in ireland today” . The things that the state allowed happen in our country are sickening and shameful and still we have politicians and institutions that would rather turn a blind eye to it all.

It was a long time coming they deserved every word of the state opology hope they can live out their lives in peace

Enda Kenny delivered an apology on behalf of all citizens that make up the state today and in the past.
A matter like this should transcend politics.
It doesn’t matter whether FF want to take credit for badgering him into an apology before the ink was even dry on the report, or that FG should have more clearly announced an apology was forthcoming at a pre-scheduled Dail debate.
What matters is the State has apologised. The apology was the State speaking to the victims.

It is sad to see all this party politics. We know that Ireland is going through hell financially. Enda Kenny has never struck me as a very charismatic leader, but he has fought doggedly for Ireland and firstly well he has secured a tough deal under very difficult circumstances for the countries long term debt I could see that he was a good politician. Now that he has done the honourable an decent thing in making a heartfelt and sincere apology for an obvious error the man is becoming a very great politician. Well done Enda and welcome to the field of statesmen! It is only unfortunate that Irish politics prevents some that are so blind with hatred that they still look at a gift horse in the mouth!

The Irish Psychiatric Profession should also apologise to Magdalene victims.

The Psychiatric profession colluded with the Catholic Church in incarcerating thousands of innocent Irish Women and Men for ” unacceptable, deviant behaviour” – ie. being a Single Mother or being a Homosexual in the Fifties and Sixties. Many lives were ruined by these guys ordering Lobotomies, Freezing Insulin Baths and Electric Shock Treatments on many healthy people.

When will the media scrutinise the numerous abuses by Consultant Psychiatrists ? We know of several cases involving these so called pillars of the Community locking innocent people up in return for large cash payments . They remain above the Law and when they get a diagnosis wrong, the unfortunate patient has no opportunity for redress. They intimidate and bully. Have any of these arrogant elitists ever apologised for the sins committed in the name of their professional research ?

We now know, thanks to great work, by the late Mary Rafferty that these abuses were/are still happening recently in Waterford and other Institutions. Doctor Dennis Lane O’ Kelly has been named in the excellent RTE documentary, ‘Behind the Walls’. Yet those who knew about this and other abuses are still employed by the HSE. Do these experts on all aspects of human nature really expect us to believe that they knew nothing about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people being instigated by one of their colleagues, Dr. Lane O’ Kelly ?

I am glad these women are getting the justice they deserve. The state should definitely compensate for the 21% they institutionalised. But nearly all of the other 79% were sent there by their familys. So other then getting compensation from the four orders for the work they performed and rightly so. Shouldn’t they also start suing their families or family estates since most are no longer with us. (The family side of this story seems to be whispered rather then shouted. Like the state and orders involvment.) I might sound heartless, but their families also need to put ther hands up and say they did wrong.

The establishment was finally forced to come clean on the Magdalene Scandal but many other abuses of justice are still going on. Take a look at the one below :

Psychiatrist Lane O’Kelly justice talks abandoned

Justine McCarthy Published: 20 January 2013
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/a…;

PLANS for restorative justice talks with four women who were sexually abused by their psychiatrist have been abandoned because the Brothers of Charity, his employers, have refused to accept responsibility.

The talks were requested by four women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Dr Denis Lane O’Kelly at Belmont Park hospital in Waterford.

A professional facilitator was approved by both sides and the religious order had agreed to pay his fee before the process ground to a halt.

The women now say they want financial compensation from the order.

Lane O’Kelly died in 2002, two weeks before he was due to stand trial on multiple charges of indecently assaulting patients, arising from a garda investigation begun in 1994.

Civil actions previously taken against him by some of his former patients were dismissed in the High Court on the grounds that too much time had elapsed since the alleged assaults.

Only because he was forced to… When is a Pope going to say sorry for what the catholic church going to say sorry.. They are far wealthier than this State is to pay the more than deserved compensation these ladies deserve !!!!

These women were slaves and deserve an apology. The new era of financial slavery and bankers violence againt the Irish people make it impossible for me to respect Enda. I am so ashamed of Kenny Gilmore and Noonan and the sell out.