IRELAND
BBC News
A group representing survivors of the Magdalene laundries has urged the Irish government to cease state funding and strip the religious orders that ran them of their charitable status.
The Mercy Sisters, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Charity and the Good Shepherd Sisters refused to financially compensate the survivors.
Magdalene Survivors Together said it was appalling that the Irish government could not hold the religious orders to account.
“The perpetrators of the crimes and the enormous suffering with which these women have suffered is being made a mockery of by the religious orders,” group spokesperson Steven O’Riordan said.
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