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The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is being called on to make a full apology to the women who were detained in Magdelene laundries ahead of the publication of a report into the scandal this afternoon.
Survivors of the laundries want an apology and compensation, and where necessary prosecutions for the abuses which took place at the catholic-run work houses.
The committee which compiled this report was chaired by Senator Martin McAleese who resigned from politics last Friday.
The report which will be discussed by the cabinet today will outline the extent of the Irish government’s knowledge of the abuses that took place at the Magdalene laundries, the last of which only closed in 1996.
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