IRELAND
Irish Independent
May 4 2017
Philomena Lee has spoken of her disbelief at the Order of the Sisters of Charity involvement with the new National Maternity Hospital.
Ms Lee – who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film ‘Philomena’ – told the Irish Independent that she believed the order’s nuns were “digging their heels in” to hold onto ownership of the hospital.
“I only heard this through my sisters the other day and it’s gone crazy,” she said. “They ran the Magdalene Laundries and they were horrific altogether. I don’t think the Church should be involved in running hospitals, I mean they ran the homes.
“We never knew what was going on, they never told us anything, you believed every word you were told,” she added.
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