IRELAND
Irish Mirror
BY JAMES WARD
Mary Collins’ mother Angela was “snatched from the side of the road” and spent 27 years in a hellhole institution where she tragically died
A woman whose mother was buried in a mass grave after spending 27 years in a hellhole Magdalene Laundry last night begged for her body to be returned.
Mary Collins has told how her family was torn apart when the Traveller was “snatched from the side of the road” and thrown into the hated institution.
The 54-year-old said at St Vincent’s home in Cork her mum Angela was forced to give up her youngest child in an illegal adoption and was denied vital medical treatment, which eventually led to her death.
Mary, who lives in London, believes the grave is filled with Traveller women subjected to the same inhumane treatment.
She told the Irish Mirror: “She was put into a mass grave with 72 other women in Cork and that is where she lays.
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