IRELAND
RTE News

Irish Catholics have been urged to boycott weekend masses in protest at the refusal of the congregations of nuns which owned Magdalene Laundries to contribute to the redress fund for survivors of the institutions.

The call has been made by the Magdalene Survivors Together group, which also accuses Taoiseach Enda Kenny of siding with the orders on the issue.

In a statement, the group’s spokesman, Steven O’Riordan, said survivors need the public’s support because the Government is “totally out of its depth”.

He also called on ministers to exempt the women from the Statute of Limitations so that they can sue the four congregations concerned.