IRELAND
Limerick Leader
By Mike Dwane
Published on Friday 8 February 2013
A LIMERICK survivor of the Magdalene laundry has branded Taoiseach Enda Kenny a “disgrace” for his “half-hearted” apology to thousands of Irish women who toiled without pay in the institutions.
Margaret Joyce, a native of Ballina who now lives in Castleconnell, spent over five years in the laundry run by the Good Shepherd Sisters on Clare Street, an institution where 93 women remained until their deaths.
Margaret’s mother was only 17 when she was born and she remained in the care of her grandmother until she was admitted to the laundry at the age of 11.
“I was the youngest one in there and they put me to work from the very first day,” she recalled.
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