IRELAND
Irish Times
Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s response to the Magdalene laundries report is a “cop out”, a group of survivors has said.
Maureen Sullivan, who was in a laundry in New Ross, said the response was “not enough” and she said wanted a full apology. The report itself showed there was still “denial” about the profits the religious congregations made from the unpaid labour of the women who worked in them, she added.
“Those comments from Enda Kenny are a complete and utter cop out,” said Steven O’Riordan of the Magdalene Survivors Together.
He said the Taoiseach was “so sneaky and so quiet” about dealing with the banking crisis and if he put as much effort into the Magdalene report as that “maybe we would get the results that we require”, he added.
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