That means Mmf in Korean
Paul Murphy writes:
Another video from Sportsfile’s Ray McManus with Team Ireland at PyeongChang 2013 as they celebrate their success at the games and say goodbye to South Korea.
(Magdalene survivors, from top: Maureen Sullivan and Diane Croghn; Mary Smith and Marina Gambold this afternoon)
I_________urge Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny to call for State acknowledgment of its complicity in remanding women and children to Magdalene Laundries, and to (i) offer an official apology to and (ii) establish a distinct redress scheme for victims and survivors of these abusive institutions.
OGD writes:
The wording is based on a ‘Justice for Magdalenes’ petition during Brian Cowen’s time. With only the name changed. We need to show Kenny how wrong he has got it.
Petition here
This happened in the 1920s.
And they still won’t name the judge.
Now, that‘s power.
Magdalene Report here
Meanwhile…at Heuston… @broadsheet_ie (taken by Syed Hussain and forwarded to me)twitpic.com/c160fy
— David O Donoghue (@davidod) February 5, 2013
Director Benjamin Bardou repurposed footage from Grand Theft Auto IV to create this pleasing Blade Runner-esque ‘digital dreamscape’
Full screen, HD on, sound up.
More from Martin McAleese’s Magdalene Report introduction
The Curragh Plains, Co Kildare, today.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
BREAKING: ABP have named the Beef Trader to me they say supplied them with horsemeat. More on @drivetimerte in ten minutes. #horseburger
— Philip Boucher-Hayes (@boucherhayes) February 5, 2013
Carry on.
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A ‘Magdalen Girl’, name and date unknown.
Four congregations ran the Magdalene Laundries: The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Mercy Sisters, the Sisters of Charity and the Good Shepherd Sisters across Ireland.
It’s believed 30,000 women were incarcerated between 1922 and 1996. They have claimed the State, most notably the gardaí, knew the nuns behind the laundries were holding these women involuntarily.
Today’s report is a response to a UN Committee Against Torture’s call for an investigation into the residents’ claims.
Records were available for eight of the ten laundries investigated. Two ran by the Sisters of Mercy (Galway and Dún Laoghaire) did not have records.
What the Taoiseach told the Dáil:
The report deals not with 30,000 women but with 10,012. He said the actual number of known admissions was 14,607, as some women entered the laundries more than once.
He said the State was involved in just 26% of cases whereby women were sent to the laundries.
The average age was 23, the median age was 20, the youngest girl was nine, the oldest woman was 89.
He said just over 10% of women sent to the laundries were sent there by their families, and 19% went there themselves.
There was no evidence of sexual abuse at the laundries.
He said “destitution and poverty” were among the reasons women ended up in the laundries.
He said the stigma of being a resident should have been removed and he was sorry it has not happened sooner.
More here.
Read the report here.
Pic via Aine Phillips
UPDATE: Magdalene Survivors Reject Taoiseach’s Apology (breakingnews.ie)