IRELAND
BBC News
[with video]
A report published today is expected to detail Irish government knowledge of what went on in Magdalene Laundries.
The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses that operated in Ireland from the 1920s to the mid-1990s.
Girls considered “troubled” or what were then called “fallen women” were sent there by families or the courts.
Sally Mulready, a survivor of the Magdalene Laundries, told the Today programme’s John Humphrys that she was put to work using large washing machines.
“You had to do that or die with starvation,” she explained.
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