Magdalene Laundry survivors plan to protest outside the provincial headquarters of a religious order which has refused to contribute to the State’s redress scheme.

President Michael D Higgins has told survivors of the Magdalene Laundries they suffered an enormous wrong at the hands of the State.

The Government has thrown down the gauntlet to the four religious orders that ran the Magdalene Laundries, saying it expects them to contribute money towards the redress scheme — as two groups said they would not pay.

The details of the compensation scheme for the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries will be published today.

Conall Ó Fátharta asks if we can expect more than just ‘sorry’

A religious order which listed four Magdalene women as being buried in two different locations has amended the headstone.

Magdalene Laundries operated on a subsistence or close to break-even basis despite the “common perception” that they were highly profitable.

Denied justice and an apology by the State and Taoiseach Enda Kenny, the women of the Magdalene Laundries deserved a better response, writes Maeve O’Rourke

Gardaí believe the fire which gutted a listed former convent building in Cork City was started deliberately.

LAND surrounding a former mass grave at the largest Magdalene Laundry was quietly sold by the order of nuns who ran it for €61.8 million during the boom.

GROWING up in the 1950s one often heard rantings from the pulpit about slave labour camps in atheistic Russia.

THOUSANDS of adopted people will be blocked from independently accessing their birth records under a new computerised public record system, an adoption group warned yesterday.