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Irish Times

PATSY McGARRY and MARY MINIHAN

Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin Eamonn Walsh said yesterday that helping women who had been in the Magdalene laundries was “a matter for all parties involved”.

He was responding to media queries as to whether the four religious congregations which ran the 10 laundries should help fund compensation and services for the women.

“Everybody who held responsibility [where the laundries were concerned] should step up to the line,” he said.

It was “up to everybody to be responsible”, he said, and that “the religious won’t be found wanting”.