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By Aoife Barry | TheJournal.ie
The justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) group have said they “are not going to stop what [they’re] doing” as they prepare to release a critique of the McAleese Report.
The government-appointed report was released in November 2013 and was heavily criticised by the JFMR survivors group.
How many survivors?
The JFMR are currently preparing a full critique of Martin McAleese’s report, and intends on issuing the first tranche on 19 February, the anniversary of the Government’s apology to Magdalene survivors.
The group said it has identified 1,663 people who died in Magdalene laundries, which is almost twice the McAleese report’s figure of 879, the Irish Examiner reports.
“I suppose we’ve first of all realised that pretty much everything that we submitted [to the committee putting together the McAleese report], certainly on deaths, was ignored,” claimed a spokesperson for JFMR.
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