IRELAND
RTE News
A Magdalene support group has said that most of the women who worked in the laundries will be unable to meet with the Taoiseach and Tánaiste as they cannot be publicly identified.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore this morning said both he and Taoiseach Enda Kenny would meet representatives of the Magdalene survivors next week.
Mr Gilmore said they intended to have a “direct discussion” with the women about what their needs are and about how the Government should respond to the report into State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries.
However, Dr Katherine O’Donnell of Justice for Magdalenes said many of the woman still operated under a “level of stigma, silence and shame”, especially in the absence of a Government apology.
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