IRELAND
Irish Independent
Mark O’Regan
PUBLISHED
22/09/2015
A survivor of one of Ireland’s industrial schools has claimed she was slapped, kicked, and “forced to sleep outside at night with pigs” if she snored too loudly.
Mary Collins also said her mother, Angela, was among those buried in a mass grave with 72 other women.
Her mother had been forced to spend 27 years in a Magdalene laundry.
Speaking outside the Dáil this morning, the 54-year-old claimed that at St Vincent’s home in Cork, her mother was forced to give up her youngest child for what was an illegal adoption.
She also alleged her mother was denied vital medical treatment – and this eventually led to her death.
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