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# Magdalene
Explainer: How can religious orders refuse to pay compensation to Magdalenes?
Why are the religious orders responsible for running the Magdalene Laundries not obliged to pay financial compensation to survivors?
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Jul 17th 2013, 11:30 AM
# Magdalene Laundries
Shatter: I can't go in a tank and force Magdalene orders to pay compensation
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.
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Jul 16th 2013, 6:04 PM
# Magdalenes
In their own words: Survivors' accounts of life inside a Magdalene Laundry
The report published today includes a section devoted to survivors’ first-hand accounts of life in a Laundry.
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Feb 5th 2013, 9:10 PM
# Laundries
Religious orders offer apology for abuse in Magdalene Laundries
The four orders whose Laundries were investigated in the report express regret for the abuse uncovered there.
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Feb 5th 2013, 7:05 PM
# Heartbreaking
A life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry
One woman tells the story of her mother who was sent to a Laundry in Dublin at the age of 16 – and died there at the age of 51.
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Sep 30th 2012, 1:00 PM
# Magdalene Laundries
Nuns say they will participate in any Magdalene inquiry
The Minister for Justice is expected to act on the recent findings of a UN committee regarding the institutions within the the next two weeks.
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Jun 11th 2011, 12:29 PM