Kenny sorry for ‘stigma’ of being in Magdalene laundries, but stops short of full apology

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Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries

The Taoiseach has stopped short of issuing a full apology to the women detained in Magdalene laundries.

Speaking in the Dáil this afternoon, Enda Kenny said he was sorry that the stigma of being in the laundries was not removed, sorry that people lived in the environment and sorry that it took until July 2011 to instigate the McAleese committee report.

The report, which will be published at 4pm today, found clear evidence of state involvement in the religious-run workhouses but says there was a legal basis for the state’s actions.

Senator McAleese’s report finds that more than a quarter of 10,000 women who entered the laundries were referred there by the state.

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