IRELAND
Irish Independent
Louise Hogan– 04 March 2013
MAGDALENE Laundry campaigners warned there were still more questions to be answered, as flowers were laid at graves to mark the long-awaited apology from the State.
Tears were shed as dozens of bunches of flowers were placed at the Magdalene burial plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Claire McGettrick, spokeswoman for Justice for Magdalenes, said they staged the flower-laying event to mark the apology from Taoiseach Ends Kenny and to show the women are “wholly blameless”.
“It is just to convey the apology to them and make them part of that somehow.”
The apology came after the publication of a report that revealed the State was responsible for almost one-quarter of all admissions to the laundries.
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