‘It Should Be A Bigger Story Than It Is, Frankly’

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From top: Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dáil in February 2013 when he apologised to women who had been incarcerated in Magdalene homes; Irish Examiner journalist Conall Ó Fátharta

Yesterday.

Journalist with The Irish Examiner Conall Ó Fátharta tweeted his thoughts on the Magdalene redress scheme.

His sobering account follows separate previous reports by him detailing how 14 women who were sent from An Grianán training centre to work in Dublin’s High Park Magdalene laundry in the 1980s have yet to receive an offer of redress from the Department of Justice.

This delay, he reported, is on account of the department saying that the order which ran the laundry, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge, claims it stopped sending women from An Ghrianán to the laundry in 1980.

But, Mr Ó Fátharta has pointed out, among other matters, that the department’s legal team has refused on three occasions to given the women’s legal team any evidence to support this claim and the High Court accepted, in 2017, that children worked at High Park into the 1980s.

Mr Ó Fátharta tweeted:

Related: Magdalene women seek minister’s help on redress (Conall Ó Fátharta, The Irish Examiner)

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7 thoughts on “‘It Should Be A Bigger Story Than It Is, Frankly’

  1. dav

    Standard blushirt tactic, delay in the hope that the victims will die before redress is made..

    1. Papi

      Do you have a little cape, that is every colour except blu, and you whoosh around your house, jumping off bunk beds and scaring the dog?

  2. millie st murderlark

    Thought I’d gone back in time for a minute to those halcyon days of men with pints.

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