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Thursday 21 January 2021
A new book seeks to highlight how much this period in Irish history still impacts on people today.
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
Abandoned, abused and abducted – this is one woman’s Magdalene story.
Justice for Magdalenes Research is calling on the government to help organise the event.
Over 1,600 women are buried in cemeteries around the country, many of whom are in unmarked graves.
A mother and daughter are campaigning for the children of Magdalene women to receive a State apology.
A number of organisations have called on the government to implement all of the recommendations in the Quirke report.
The Justice Minister also announced that lump sums totalling €12.8 million have been paid to survivors.
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.
Survivors Who Stand Together claim that they are being treated like “beggars”.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the apology from the Taoiseach to Magdalene survivors.
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.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties presented a list of recent developments in Ireland to the committee.
Kathleen Whelan is one of two members of Magdalene Survivors Together who has died this year before receiving compensation.
After a meeting with the Health Minister today, one of the groups representing women said at no stage did Reilly condemn the practice.
Everybody’s talking about exiting the bailout, the end of the Dáil term and Nelson Mandela’s birthday.
A group representing survivors of the Magdalene laundries has asked people to withhold donations to their local Catholic church this weekend.
Everybody’s talking about an abortion case in the High Court, a new broadcasting charge and the cover of Rolling Stone.
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Why are the religious orders responsible for running the Magdalene Laundries not obliged to pay financial compensation to survivors?
Everyone’s talking about the abortion legislation passing the Seanad, Magdalene laundries, and Katy French’s inquest.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he is disappointed that religious orders implicated in the Magdalene Laundries scandal will not contribute to the compensation fund for survivors.
A survivors’ group says any proposals for a Magdalene-type scheme of redress would be “wholly inappropriate”, and has called on the Government to engage with its members.
The compensation scheme announced this week falls far short of what’s required, survivors say.
Members of the group Magdalene Survivors Together have demanded the religious orders which operated the laundry system be held responsible for the abuse that went on inside them.
The Magdalene survivors will all receive cash payments from €11,500 to €100,000, depending on their length of stay.
The Minister for Justice is expected to be published details of the compensation and support scheme for hundreds of women who survived the laundries.
The Justice for Magdalenes Research group has called for immediate redress following a report into the State involvement with Magdalene laundries.
The survivors of the Protestant-run Bethany home are calling for redress and an apology for their treatment at the home.
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.
A solicitor for some of the London-based women says the State should pay for legal representation as it did during the Redress Scheme.
Paying attention to multiple, often mutually reinforcing disadvantages, can help us understand injustices committed against marginalised members of our society, writes Clara Fischer.
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.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore told the women that “today is not the end” for them, and that “Ireland… was wrong, not you”.
The funds will be given to the UK Step by Step Centre for Irish Survivors of Industrial Schools and the Laundries.
The Taoiseach stepped out of this evening’s Dáil debates to pop upstairs and greet the survivors.
Judge John Quirke will make recommendations on the criteria for the help the government can give to Magdalene Laundries survivors.
A NATIONAL VOLUNTARY collection for survivors of mother and baby homes has been suggested by independent senator Rónán Mullen.
The government is drawing up a redress scheme for survivors on foot of the publication of the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation last week.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that religious organisations should “make a contribution” towards this scheme.
Speaking in the Seanad yesterday, Mullen said the country should consider “whether it would be appropriate to have some kind of national voluntary contribution as part of a redress package to reflect the social and community dimension to this story, along with Church and State contributions”.
“We are all connected with families who are in some way a part of this story,” he added.
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