The former ‘Gloucester Street’ Magdalene Laundry, Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1
Social Democrats Dublin City Councillor Gary Gannon, for Dublin’s North Inner City, has set up a petition calling on Dublin City Council to stop the sale of the Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry site to a Japanese hotel chain.
He writes:
Dublin City Council is planning to sell the 2-acre Magdalene Laundry site on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin to a Japanese hotel chain for €14 million.
The elected Dublin City Councillors have the power to stop the sale. They will vote on a motion to stop the Council’s plan on Monday 3rd September.
Sign the petition here
Previously: The Last Laundry
How about selling it for housing?
Sure the hotel can be used to accommodate the homeless. Simples
That’s the kind of thinking our government needs!
When I last read about this, there were plans to build a small number of apartments as well, with something like 40% social housing units.
How does Dublin City Council come to own this building in the first place?
A trip to Venezuela for Gary, he needs to see what socialists seizing private property achieve.
Venezuela inflation heads for one million per cent!
Theres a gas photo doing the rounds of a jax roll that costs like a billion bolivars to buy which contains more paper than the jax roll itself.
I’d like to know, what the survivors would like done with the building?
As far as I know they don’t want it sold either,
Perhaps it should be kept as a museum of sorts, a monument to all the mother and baby homes, the wrong’s carried out on them, the shame they brought. They could reconstruct a portion of it to what it was back in the day. Tell real victims stories in it
It’s important we never forget our past
Is the building listed? If not then why not?
Because that would get in the way of profit
Populist crap from the SOC Dems. Why not sell it and do something with it. This area needs some investment surely?
Sure we can do the same with any historical site of injustice eh?
All in the eyes of abit of profit.
I’d say we could make some money off Kilmainham Gaol, what do you think?
That is a nonsense comment. For a start we do have money of Kilmainham Gaol. Secondly it is not a protected structure. Thirdly It had been derelict for years. Finally, why protect a building that has been an are of suffering for years?
Why not just turn it into a hotel, with all of the jobs for the local area and rates which would result, and put up a dignified plaque or similar? It’s important to remember these things, but it is also important for society to move on, and I don’t think that allowing a 2-acre site lie derelict is the best way to do either.
I may be mad, but €14 mill sounds cheap, but it could be used for housing- surely a better Social Monument to those who suffered there in the past
Big ugly old building being sold. So what?
A country needs a reminder of the atrocities that were inflicted upon it, so that it never happens again.
In another 20 years there will be no survivors of these institutions left alive and if nothing is done within a decade the scandal of what church and state did will be obliterated
This site should be renovated and turned into a national memorial for the victims so they can never be forgotten
This state with church did horrendous things and as a fitting memorial we cannot forget that dark passage in our history
Well said.
A sensible solution would be to bring in a housing body that specialises in providing support to victims of dv or young mothers in need of parenting support. Also, Respond did a fine job on the grounds of the laundry in drumcondra, High Park i think. Anyway this has been done sensitively before, no reason it has to be so much drama
Euh yes please, get rid of it. Why would any survivor even want that building kept?