IRELAND
The Journal
FOR SHEILA O’BYRNE, the memories of being in St Patrick’s Magdalene Laundry on the Navan Road will always be with her.
Though it has been almost 39 years, she said she still wants the truth.
Survivors of the Magdalene Laundries gathered outside the Dáil yesterday calling for a truth commission to be established into all homes that were operating around the country.
O’Byrne said women are still searching for their lost children, while others just want to know where their children, or their mothers who were in the homes are buried.
It’s understood that at least 1,663 former Magdalene women are buried in Irish cemeteries – many in unmarked graves.
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