# magdalene - Yesterday’s News
The Justice for Magdalenes Research group has called for immediate redress following a report into the State involvement with Magdalene laundries.
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# magdalene - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
The survivors of the Protestant-run Bethany home are calling for redress and an apology for their treatment at the home.
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# magdalene - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
The guide for survivors is published ahead of a report by a former High Court judge into how the State can best provide redress and support for the women.
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# magdalene - Saturday 2 March, 2013
A solicitor for some of the London-based women says the State should pay for legal representation as it did during the Redress Scheme.
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# magdalene - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Paying attention to multiple, often mutually reinforcing disadvantages, can help us understand injustices committed against marginalised members of our society, writes Clara Fischer.
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# magdalene - Saturday 23 February, 2013
The group representing the survivors said that they will continue to push for redress and a memorial to children at the home buried in unmarked graves.
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# magdalene - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Good morning. Here are nine things to know as you start your day.
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# magdalene - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore told the women that “today is not the end” for them, and that “Ireland… was wrong, not you”.
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The funds will be given to the UK Step by Step Centre for Irish Survivors of Industrial Schools and the Laundries.
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The Taoiseach stepped out of this evening’s Dáil debates to pop upstairs and greet the survivors.
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Judge John Quirke will make recommendations on the criteria for the help the government can give to Magdalene Laundries survivors.
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Watch the Taoiseach’s full, historic 17-minute speech as he apologised to the women committed to Magdalene Laundries.
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The Taoiseach has apologised to the “blameless” Magdalene Laundries survivors for the hurt that was done to them, and any stigma they suffered.
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“I, as Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, the government and our citizens deeply regret and apologise unreservedly to all those women for the hurt that was done to them…”
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TDs this evening debate the findings of the inter-departmental report, with expectations of a formal State apology.
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# magdalene - Sunday 17 February, 2013
The group proposes a figure of €100,000 lump sum compensation for Magdalene survivors, in addition to a package of services including pensions and lost wages.
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Minister Alan Shatter said that the focus is on producing a ‘comprehensive package of measures’ arising out of the recent report.
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# magdalene - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Meanwhile, the Justice for Magdalenes group has published a redacted version of its principal submission on the laundries online.
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# magdalene - Monday 11 February, 2013
Members of the Magdalene Survivors Together will meet with Taoiseach Enda Kenny this afternoon but another group has sought clarification on the purpose of any meeting.
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# magdalene - Sunday 10 February, 2013
A group of women represented by the Magdalene Survivors Together group will meet with Enda Kenny on Monday afternoon.
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# magdalene - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
Dominic Hannigan and Gerald Nash are among those calling for an apology to be made by the government for the State’s role in admitting thousands of women to the laundries.
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The Departments of Finance, Health, Social Welfare and Education all used the laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin.
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# magdalene - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The country’s biggest trade union says mental anguish cannot be undone, and survivors should be compensated adequately.
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A selection of numerical statistics drawn from the Inter-Departmental report, and about the report itself.
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Amnesty International Ireland says the Magdalenes report reveals “major human rights abuses” and demands urgent action.
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“That is not an apology… it is a cop out,” survivors said of Enda Kenny’s comments in the Dáil this afternoon.
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Senator McAleese said he hopes his report brings healing and peace of mind to survivors.
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# magdalene - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
Diarmuid Martin has said that there were “questions still to be answered” in relation to the abuse scandal.
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# magdalene - Thursday 7 June, 2012
The Justice for Magdalenes group said that survivors and family members of survivors met with the Senator to discuss state interaction with the Magdalene Laundries.
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# magdalene - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.
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Magdalene Survivors Together have criticised the government nearly a year after a UN committee recommended an inquiry into the State’s involvement in the running of the infamous institutions.
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