IRELAND
Irish Independent
Michael Brennan Deputy Political Editor– 19 February 2013
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has delivered the first official apology to the women of the Magdalene laundries.
He had come under fire for failing to apolgoise two weeks ago when former Senator Martin McAleese’s 1,000-page report into State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries was published.
But in the Dail, Mr Kenny delivered a clear state apology to the 10,000 women who had been in the country’s ten Magdalene Laundries.
He said there never would have been any need for institutions such as the Magdalen Laundries in a society guided by the principles of compassion and social justice.
And he said that women kept in there were wholly blameless and were only described as “fallen women” due to prejudice.
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