Let down yet again, ageing survivors of the Magdalene laundries have suffered unnecessary pain in the past few years, writes Claire McGettrick.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is being called on to make a full apology to the women who were detained in Magdalene laundries, ahead of the publication of a report into the scandal this afternoon.

A 26 year-old Dublin man who murdered his girlfriend, Sara Nelligan, in a brutal knife attack at their home has been jailed for life by the Central Criminal Court.