# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 10 June, 2018
We spoke to four survivors who told us their personal stories of their time in the laundries.
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# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 9 June, 2018
Abandoned, abused and abducted – this is one woman’s Magdalene story.
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# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
Around 220 women are in Dublin as part of the Dublin Honours Magdalenes event
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# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
Around 220 women, now in their 80s were in Dublin today.
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“I was taken in by the nuns at 15 – I hadn’t even kissed a boy”: Elizabeth Coppin told RTÉ about her experience in a Cork Laundry.
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# magdalene-laundries - Monday 4 June, 2018
The women, many of them aged in their 80s, are gathering to discuss their experiences in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundry institutions.
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# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 15 April, 2018
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald argues work should begin on a memorial on the site of the Sean McDermott St Laundry.
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# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
Justice for Magdalenes Research is calling on the government to help organise the event.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 21 December, 2017
If we are truly committed to remembering those darkest parts of our history, then we should preserve the Sean McDermott Street building as a living monument, writes Gary Gannon.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 7 December, 2017
Plans for the site include a hotel, a student residence, a cultural amenity and ten residential units.
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# magdalene-laundries - Friday 11 August, 2017
The UN Committee Against Torture is critical of the government’s record in a number of areas.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 22 June, 2017
Margaret Bullen died in 2003 aged just 50 from a disease possibly linked to her exposure to industrial-strength chemicals in the Laundries where she had lived.
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# magdalene-laundries - Monday 20 March, 2017
A survivor returned this week to the Magdalene Laundry where she had been forced to spend her youth.
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# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 11 March, 2017
Enda Kenny has said he wants to deal with the dark legacies of our past but following his statements this week, he’s still way off the mark, writes Sinead Pembroke.
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# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 5 March, 2017
Over 1,600 women are buried in cemeteries around the country, many of whom are in unmarked graves.
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# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 6 March, 2016
At least 1,663 former Magdalene women are buried in cemeteries in Ireland – many in unmarked graves.
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# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
Some Magdelene survivors are “disappointed” with government support measures.
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# magdalene-laundries - Friday 22 May, 2015
The women will be eligible for a range of health services from the start of July.
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# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 13 January, 2015
Justice for Magdalenes is preparing a critique on the McAleese report into the Magdalene laundries.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 30 October, 2014
The man’s teacher said most students in the prison have little or no art experience and the classes help them to see what they’re capable of.
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# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 9 August, 2014
Justice for Magdalenes Research has said that it falls short of what was previously recommended to Government.
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# magdalene-laundries - Monday 14 July, 2014
The Justice Minister defended the State redress scheme for survivors of symphysiotomy at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva today.
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# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 29 June, 2014
The history of Ireland’s legal adoption battle is fraught with examples of church-state collusion, even after 1952 when legislation for it was finally enacted in Ireland.
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# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
The Justice Minister also announced that lump sums totalling €12.8 million have been paid to survivors.
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# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 14 June, 2014
The Minister for Children said the investigation into mother-and-baby homes must have a time-limit and be cost-effective.
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# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
Justice for Magadalenes Research said today that the laundries should be included in the government’s statutory investigation.
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# magdalene-laundries - Monday 9 June, 2014
It’s a common refrain that widespread abuse was only exposed in recent decades – but the real story is very different, writes Fin Dwyer.
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# magdalene-laundries - Friday 23 May, 2014
The scheme will cost the State up to €60 million.
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# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
Justice Minister Alan Shatter told the Dáil that 731 applications have been made under the redress scheme so far.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 13 March, 2014
Around 250 women have accepted offers of compensation from a fund set up in the wake of the McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundries, the Public Accounts Committee heard today.
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# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 2 March, 2014
The event was held in Glasnevin Cemetery today.
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# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 19 February, 2014
Good morning, here’s everything you need to know to launch yourself into Wednesday.
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Today marks the one year anniversary of the apology from the Taoiseach to Magdalene survivors.
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# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 5 February, 2014
The Holy See said it sees some of the UN committee’s observations as interfering with its teaching.
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The UN demanded that the Vatican “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers.
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# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 29 December, 2013
Magdalene survivors, symphysiotomy campaigns and UNCAT criticism of abortion guidelines…this is the year that was.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 28 November, 2013
It is the second time this month that a UN agency has voiced concerns about Ireland’s record.
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# magdalene-laundries - Friday 8 November, 2013
Justice for Magdalenes Research pointed to the length of time the McAleese Report said most women stayed in the laundries, compared to how long survivors actually stayed in them.
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# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 5 November, 2013
Speaking in the Dáil this evening, Shatter said that over 600 applications have been made for lump-sum payments from the redress scheme set up in the wake of the McAleese report.
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# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 31 October, 2013
Mary Lou McDonald said time was ticking and that at least two women have passed away without receiving compensation.
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