A full apology, and an acknowledgment of the states part, and due compensation is the LEAST that should happen.,

Enda apologise???? he’d rather sling dirt at other tds. Grow up ya Fool!!!!!!!!

Without a doubt, this should be done.. but the timing of calling for it on the night when emergency legislation is about to be rushed through the Dail wrt Promissory notes that will effect the next 30 years of peoples lives would appear to be a smoke screen!
ECB are worried that they can’t force us to pay a note so a bond is being created..
I really hope we are not having a repeat of the night of the bank guarantee in 2008 by the late B.Lenihen.
David Halls legal challenge has got them scared and they need to secure our debt commitment quickly it appears..
Democracy is dead.

Will someone tell labour they are in government

A delayed apology under political pressure is empty and disrespectful. An apology comes from the heart, is given because of a sincere and instinctive view that the apology is due.

The time for the apology has passed. It should have been given last night. Now, any apology would be too little and too late.

A sincere, heartfelt apology without weasel words, without equivocation without need to explain context and to minimise what happened would have comforted the victims, validated their grievances and complaints and been some sort of reparation.

At least we know the nature of the Government and the true character of the Taioiseach.

Sounds like Labour have found another excuse for extrapolating themselves from this marriage.

@Julie Enda might have been in opposition but he was in the Dail since 1975 and now is head of the State, therefore he does need to apologise on behalf of the state for the horrendous way in which these women have been treated

Apologies are meaningless in this country whose culture teaches children at the age of seven that they are sinners and must confess. Sure, isn’t confession a form of apology? Seven year old children aren’t sinners any more than a baby is. Yet they are indoctrinated to believe they are. So they apologise for things that aren’t even sins according to the Ten Commandments, and so the cycle starts.

More investigation needed, how come these laundries made little money when they used slave labour? were they charging nothing or under cutting real businesses? Send the fraud squad in to one or two of these laundries as a start and pay the gardai some overtime….

The Bishops should apologise because i) the Magdeline Launderies were under their remit as well, ii) priests under their control were referring women to the Magdelines, iii) and the legion of Mary was also undertone patronage of the Bishops. But guess what they are keeping their heads down.

Why should the taxpayer of today, most of who weren’t even born yet, have full liability for what the Catholic Church and Dev’s Ireland did?

Sounds like Labour have found another excuse for extrapolating themselves from this marriage.

Looking at the report it seems that most of these women arrived at the Magdalene’s mostly at the behest of their families, local priests doing the referral work of the families. Surely apologies are warranted too from the families who stigmatised their own daughters and sisters. Another source from which women were sent to the Magdalene’s was from the Courts where it may have been the case that a Judge decided that this was a better alternative in lieu of being sent to prison.

It’s also worth noting there were no alternatives to social care offered by the State back then. Religious and Charities filled the void, the question remains, what would have become of these “fallen” women if they had to endure the stigma society placed on them and they had to fend for themselves on the streets, with many facing homelessness , poverty and prostitution. Much like the closing of the horrible sweatshops in the Third world has often lead to an increase in prostitution and child prostitution, as the alternatives are not there to sustain them.

The average stay in the Magdalene’s was 7 months, which indicates it was families hiding their pregnant daughters from the shame that was placed on the families by society and they were out as soon as the pregnancy was done.

It’s worth noting the same organisations, the Good Shepherd Sisters and Our Lady of Charity Sisters , both of which had a long history of involvement with marginalised women, including those involved in prostitution founded Ruhama and continue to be involved in the protection of marginalised women. So it’s not a black and white issue when it comes to demanding apologies.

Was yesterdays Frankfurt leak – a convenient windfall distraction from ‘Enda’s & Eamon’s No Apology Way?