Labour moves to seek redress for Magdalene women

THE Labour Party is to seek legal advice on whether the state can be held accountable for the judiciary system’s former practice of sending women to Magdalene laundries on probation and on remand.

Its former leader and Dublin East deputy Ruairí Quinn has also called for a national museum telling the story of the tens of thousands of children and young adults who were abused in industrial schools and Magdalene laundries.

“I’d like to see a place where survivors and their children’s stories could be told. In Ireland, we are very good at being victims when the perpetrators are outside the country but we did those awful things to one another” he said.