An 80-year old woman who worked in a Magdalene Laundry for six years from the age of 11 has won her battle for compensation. The mother of five said her six years at the workhouse affected her “throughout her life”. Mary Cavner, who now lives in the UK, worked at the Good Shepherd’s Convent in Read more
Several Dublin councillors are trying to stop the sale to a Japanese hotel chain of the last Magdalene Laundry building still in state possession. They have the support of over 9,500 people who have signed a petition to stop the sale. The Magdalene Laundries were Catholic-run workhouses for “fallen women”, unmarried mothers and orphans. The Read more
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who caused international controversy when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II on live television, has revealed that 18 months in one of the Magdalene laundries as a child affected her for life. O’Connor, now 46, said she was sent to the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Read more