IRELAND
Evening Echo
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
“MY LIFE has been devastated — I was left without a mother, without love, without a home, without everything a human being should have.”
Mary Smyth, who spent time in a Magdalene Laundry in Cork, was speaking this morning just hours before a report was released on whether there was State involvement in the incarceration of thousands of women and girls in laundries where they were forced to do unpaid work.
Mary, who was in the Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry in Sundays Well, was one of several women who told their stories to the interdepartmental committee who have prepared the 1,000-page report.
The committee was chaired by Senator Martin McAleese.
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