Sisters of Charity received legacy money

THE SISTERS of Our Lady of Charity, who ran a Magdalene laundry in North Dublin, received thousands of pounds from numerous wills and legacies from the 1920s through to the 1970s, documentation shows.

Yet, the nuns ran a laundry where hundreds of women and young girls were forced to work six days a week for no pay and no pension. During the 1970s, the nuns, based in Drumcondra, were also in receipt of funding from the Departments of Justice and Health, according to research unearthed by the Justice for Magdalenes group.

The same nuns made regular appeals for funding to the public, in newspapers and radio, such as the radio appeal recorded by a Reverend Tyndall in 1947 seeking charitable donations for the laundry at High Park, Drumcondra.