# magdalene-laundry - Saturday 12 October, 2019
The laundry on Sean McDermott Street was the last to close in the State in 1996.
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# magdalene-laundry - Wednesday 28 August, 2019
Dublin City Council granted planning permission for 44 apartments.
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# magdalene-laundry - Saturday 13 October, 2018
Social Democrat councillor Gary Gannon says he does.
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# magdalene-laundry - Thursday 13 September, 2018
Councillor Gary Gannon said the site can now become a place of “remembrance and learning”.
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# magdalene-laundry - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
Objections have been raised to the proposed sale of the site to a Japanese hotel chain.
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# magdalene-laundry - Monday 3 September, 2018
A vote on whether to sell the Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry to a Japanese hotel chain has been adjourned.
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# magdalene-laundry - Sunday 8 April, 2018
A consultation process with 150 Magdalene survivors is to take place on the 5 and 6 June.
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# magdalene-laundry - Thursday 28 December, 2017
Social Democrat councillor Gary Gannon said that it wasn’t good enough that the site would be used for another “soulless hotel”.
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# magdalene-laundry - Monday 18 December, 2017
The site on Sean McDermott Street is expected to be sold to a Japanese hotel chain.
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# magdalene-laundry - Friday 25 August, 2017
A group of survivors and their families gathered at the back of a Dublin Magdalene laundry today to share their stories.
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# magdalene-laundry - Sunday 5 March, 2017
Over 1,600 women are buried in cemeteries around the country, many of whom are in unmarked graves.
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# magdalene-laundry - Saturday 14 January, 2017
A mother and daughter are campaigning for the children of Magdalene women to receive a State apology.
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# magdalene-laundry - Sunday 1 March, 2015
We speak to the director of this opera about what to expect.
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# magdalene-laundry - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
Justice Minister Alan Shatter told the Dáil that 731 applications have been made under the redress scheme so far.
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# magdalene-laundry - Saturday 1 March, 2014
The organisers say the memorial is a time where people can reflect, lay flowers, read a poem and spend a quiet moment at the graveside.
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# magdalene-laundry - Tuesday 5 November, 2013
Speaking in the Dáil this evening, Shatter said that over 600 applications have been made for lump-sum payments from the redress scheme set up in the wake of the McAleese report.
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# magdalene-laundry - Wednesday 17 July, 2013
The minister said it would not be lawful to remove the religious orders charitable status and there’s no scope to take legal action against those who refuse to contribute to the compensation scheme.
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# magdalene-laundry - Tuesday 2 July, 2013
The Catholic Church and the Irish State were both responsible for incarcerating women in the Magdalene Laundries – and so both must pay, writes Anne Ferris TD.
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# magdalene-laundry - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Madge O’Connell entered the laundry when she was 34 and spent the rest of her life in the care of nuns.
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# magdalene-laundry - Thursday 28 February, 2013
The Department of Justice is asking women who were in the laundries to fill out a form registering their interest in receiving money from a special redress fund being set up.
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# magdalene-laundry - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
TDs this evening debate the findings of the inter-departmental report, with expectations of a formal State apology.
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# magdalene-laundry - Sunday 17 February, 2013
The group proposes a figure of €100,000 lump sum compensation for Magdalene survivors, in addition to a package of services including pensions and lost wages.
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# magdalene-laundry - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Meanwhile, the Justice for Magdalenes group has published a redacted version of its principal submission on the laundries online.
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# magdalene-laundry - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The report published today includes a section devoted to survivors’ first-hand accounts of life in a Laundry.
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The four orders whose Laundries were investigated in the report express regret for the abuse uncovered there.
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Despite a common perception that the laundries were highly profitable, the report by Senator Martin McAleese says they barely broke even.
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# magdalene-laundry - Friday 2 November, 2012
In announcing a “charity sermon,” it speaks of “numberless unhappy females whom it has reclaimed from vice by religious and moral instructions”.
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# magdalene-laundry - Sunday 30 September, 2012
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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# magdalene-laundry - Thursday 7 June, 2012
The Justice for Magdalenes group said that survivors and family members of survivors met with the Senator to discuss state interaction with the Magdalene Laundries.
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