IRELAND
Scotsman
Published on Tuesday 5 February 2013
A NEW report is today expected to lay bare the extent of responsibility that successive Irish governments must accept for what went on in Magdalene laundries.
• Over 74 years, thousands of women were put to work in detention, mostly in laundries run by nuns
• 18-month investigation into the Catholic-run workhouses will formally reveal state involvement and knowledge
An 18-month investigation into the Catholic-run workhouses will formally reveal state involvement and knowledge of the harrowing life women in the institutions endured between 1922 and 1996.
A committee chaired by Senator Martin McAleese, who has since resigned from politics, spent 18 months establishing the role official Ireland played in the for-profit Church-run operation.
Survivors have been campaigning for the last 10 years for an apology from state and Church and a transparent compensation scheme.
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