# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 5 October, 2021
# Inquiry
# Inquiry
An expert panel has recommended an ‘integrated investigation’ by a non-statutory independent panel, feeding into a statutory public inquiry.
# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 18 September, 2021
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
A new book explores Magdalene laundries and the State’s response to institutional abuse.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 25 January, 2021
# Sean Mcdermott Street
# Sean Mcdermott Street
It was the last laundry in the State to close in 1996 and has become a focal point for potential memorialisation.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 17 February, 2020
# Committee Against Torture
# Committee Against Torture
Elizabeth Coppin’s complaint will be heard by the UN’s Committee Against Torture.
# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 21 August, 2019
# Mary Cavner
# Mary Cavner
Mary Cavner worked at the Good Shepherd’s Convent in Co Cork following her father’s death.
# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 10 April, 2019
# Donnybrook
# Donnybrook
The new plan is to comprise of 44 apartments in three three-four storey apartment blocks.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 11 February, 2019
# Department Of Justice
# Department Of Justice
The government has compensated nine Magdalene women out of 87 who have applied since the scheme was widened last year.
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
# Payments
# Payments
Lump sum and pension payments will be made to the women affected.
# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 1 November, 2018
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
Minister Katherine Zappone will deliver a keynote speech at the event which is exploring adoption and institutional abuses.
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
# Sean Mcdermott Street
# Sean Mcdermott Street
Objections have been raised to the proposed sale of the site to a Japanese hotel chain.
# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 10 June, 2018
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
We spoke to four survivors who told us their personal stories of their time in the laundries.
# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 9 June, 2018
# Frances' Story
# Frances' Story
Abandoned, abused and abducted – this is one woman’s Magdalene story.
# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
# Magdalene Survivors
# Magdalene Survivors
Around 220 women are in Dublin as part of the Dublin Honours Magdalenes event
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
# Magdalene Survivors
# Magdalene Survivors
Around 220 women, now in their 80s were in Dublin today.
# Áras An Uachtaráin
# Áras An Uachtaráin
“I was taken in by the nuns at 15 – I hadn’t even kissed a boy”: Elizabeth Coppin told RTÉ about her experience in a Cork Laundry.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 4 June, 2018
# Mansion House
# Mansion House
The women, many of them aged in their 80s, are gathering to discuss their experiences in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundry institutions.
# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 15 April, 2018
# Honour Magdalenes
# Honour Magdalenes
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald argues work should begin on a memorial on the site of the Sean McDermott St Laundry.
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Dublin
# Dublin
Justice for Magdalenes Research is calling on the government to help organise the event.
# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 21 December, 2017
# Sean Mcdermott Street
# Sean Mcdermott Street
If we are truly committed to remembering those darkest parts of our history, then we should preserve the Sean McDermott Street building as a living monument, writes Gary Gannon.
# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 7 December, 2017
# Sean Mcdermott Street
# Sean Mcdermott Street
Plans for the site include a hotel, a student residence, a cultural amenity and ten residential units.
# magdalene-laundries - Friday 11 August, 2017
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The UN Committee Against Torture is critical of the government’s record in a number of areas.
# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 22 June, 2017
# A Life Stolen
# A Life Stolen
Margaret Bullen died in 2003 aged just 50 from a disease possibly linked to her exposure to industrial-strength chemicals in the Laundries where she had lived.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 20 March, 2017
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
A survivor returned this week to the Magdalene Laundry where she had been forced to spend her youth.
# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 11 March, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
Enda Kenny has said he wants to deal with the dark legacies of our past but following his statements this week, he’s still way off the mark, writes Sinead Pembroke.
# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 5 March, 2017
# Mark Of Respect
# Mark Of Respect
Over 1,600 women are buried in cemeteries around the country, many of whom are in unmarked graves.
# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 6 March, 2016
# Flowers For Magdalenes
# Flowers For Magdalenes
At least 1,663 former Magdalene women are buried in cemeteries in Ireland – many in unmarked graves.
# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
Some Magdelene survivors are “disappointed” with government support measures.
# magdalene-laundries - Friday 22 May, 2015
# Long Time Coming
# Long Time Coming
The women will be eligible for a range of health services from the start of July.
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 13 January, 2015
# Justice
# Justice
Justice for Magdalenes is preparing a critique on the McAleese report into the Magdalene laundries.
# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 30 October, 2014
# Knit And Stitch
# Knit And Stitch
The man’s teacher said most students in the prison have little or no art experience and the classes help them to see what they’re capable of.
# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 9 August, 2014
# JFMR
# JFMR
Justice for Magdalenes Research has said that it falls short of what was previously recommended to Government.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 14 July, 2014
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The Justice Minister defended the State redress scheme for survivors of symphysiotomy at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva today.
# magdalene-laundries - Sunday 29 June, 2014
# Adoption
# Adoption
The history of Ireland’s legal adoption battle is fraught with examples of church-state collusion, even after 1952 when legislation for it was finally enacted in Ireland.
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
The Justice Minister also announced that lump sums totalling €12.8 million have been paid to survivors.
# magdalene-laundries - Saturday 14 June, 2014
# Tuam Babies
# Tuam Babies
The Minister for Children said the investigation into mother-and-baby homes must have a time-limit and be cost-effective.
# magdalene-laundries - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# Statutory Investigation
# Statutory Investigation
Justice for Magadalenes Research said today that the laundries should be included in the government’s statutory investigation.
# magdalene-laundries - Monday 9 June, 2014
# Opinion
# Opinion
It’s a common refrain that widespread abuse was only exposed in recent decades – but the real story is very different, writes Fin Dwyer.
# magdalene-laundries - Friday 23 May, 2014
# Religious Orders
# Religious Orders
The scheme will cost the State up to €60 million.
# magdalene-laundries - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
# Redress
# Redress
Justice Minister Alan Shatter told the Dáil that 731 applications have been made under the redress scheme so far.
# magdalene-laundries - Thursday 13 March, 2014
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
Around 250 women have accepted offers of compensation from a fund set up in the wake of the McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundries , the Public Accounts Committee heard today.
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