Dublin memorial planned for Magdalene survivors

A memorial garden or museum is to to be erected in Dublin to honour women who survived the Magdalene Laundries, it has been announced.

The Magdalene Survivors Together group says the memorial is to be placed at Sean McDermott Street, where the last known laundry operated until 1996.

It comes ahead of a meeting today between President Michael D Higgins and Magdalene survivors at Aras an Uachtaráin.

Last week, the Magdalene Survivors Together group asked the UN to hold a one-day forum, so that women who lived and worked in the laundries could tell their stories of alleged abuse in public.

The move was aimed at putting pressure on the Government to amend the terms of its compensation package announced recently.