IRELAND
Limerick Leader
By Mike Dwane
Published on Saturday 23 February 2013
ENDA Kenny’s “sincere and heartfelt” apology and “modest redress” would suffice for most of the Magdalene women, according to Charleville solicitor Declan Duggan.
But a minority who spent much of their lives “deprived of liberty” should not now be deprived the right to be legally represented in seeking compensation, he said.
The Government has pledged to financially support survivors of the Magdalene laundries but terms of reference announced this week studiously avoid the word compensation. Judge John Quirke has been given three months to come up with a scheme to assist the women.
Mr Duggan represents a number of survivors – including women who spent years toiling behind the walls of the Good Shepherd laundry on Clare Street, Limerick – and has in the past acted for over 100 people at the Residential Institutions Redress Board.
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