IRELAND
Irish Independent
Caroline Crawford
Published 11/06/2014
A SURVIVOR of the Tuam mother-and-baby home has told how he wouldn’t “crawl” to the State for any compensation after a large swathe of women in the Magdalene Laundries were barred from the redress scheme for those facilities.
JP Rodgers welcomed the news that a full inquiry would be held into the mother-and-baby homes but warned the Government that it must not make survivors “jump through hoops” for redress.
In the 1940s, Mr Rodgers’ mother was moved from St Mary’s home in Tuam and placed into the Magdalene Laundry in Galway when he was just 13 months old. Mr Rodgers (right) remained in the Tuam home until he was fostered out at the age of five. He believes it was a miracle that he survived.
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