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Galway Independent
Galway writer and artist Patricia Burke Brogan has expressed her disappointment that the report on the Magdalen Laundries has softened the reality of life in the laundries.
Ms Burke Brogan spent a short time in the laundry on Forster Street in Galway City as a young novice and was interviewed by report author and former Senator Martin McAleese, the independent chairperson of the inter-Departmental Committee charged with establishing the facts of the State’s involvement with the laundries.
Commenting on the report’s publication yesterday, Ms Burke Brogan, whose play ‘Eclipsed’ highlights the plight of women in the Magdalen Laundries, told The Galway Independent her initial reaction to the report was one of “disappointment”.
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