IRELAND
The Journal
MEMBERS OF THE public gathered today in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, to remember and honour all of the women who were incarcerated in the Magdalene laundries.
The annual Flowers for Magdalene event was attended by many who came bearing flowers to place on the graves.
Survivors
Speaking at the remembrance event Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Mary LouMcDonald said that it was one year after Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s apology to the Magdalene survivors and still many surviving women have been excluded from the redress scheme and just a fifth of the eligible women have yet to receive their payments, she said.
She called on the government to introduce the long awaited Restorative Justice Bill.
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