IRELAND
UTV
The Irish Government has apologised to the thousands of women locked up in Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996.
An 18 month long inquiry found 2,124 of those detained in the Catholic-run workhouses were sent by the authorities.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny expressed his sympathies with survivors and the families of those who have died.
“To those residents who went into the Magdalene laundries from a variety of ways, 26% from state involvement, I’m sorry for those people that they lived in that kind of environment,” he said.
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