Laundry survivors welcome state inquiry

MAGDALENE Laundry survivors have welcomed the setting up of a committee to probe the depth of the state’s role in the workhouses but criticised the Government for failing to immediately apologise to former female residents.

The Cabinet agreed to set up an inter-departmental committee to establish the full facts about the laundries and the state’s involvement with them.

The religious institutions that ran the laundries are to be asked to release all records on residents past and present.