Magdalene Apology Urged As Un Envoy Recommends Payout

By Lyndsey Telford and Fionnan Sheahan
Irish Independent
February 6, 2013

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/magdalene-apology-urged-as-un-envoy-recommends-payout-3378206.html

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny came under renewed pressure this morning for a state apology to the thousands of Magdalene Laundries women as a UN envoy urged compensation for the victims.

Mr Kenny again refused today to make a full apology to the remaining survivors.

He turned on Sinn Fein in the Dail for demanding an apology, when it has failed to say sorry for IRA atrocities.

The Taoiseach said the report by former Senator Martin McAleese into the Magdalene Laundries "makes for harrowing reading in many respects".