Hundreds of laundry survivors entitled to apologies and pensions, group claims

THE academic leading the Justice for Magdalene group said he believed an apology from the Government was imminent and that statutory pensions should then be provided to “hundreds” of survivors.

James Smith, associate professor at Boston College, spoke yesterday, a day after presenting findings on state complicity in the Magdalene Laundries to Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

It is understood some survivors attended yesterday’s presentation at UCD’s Humanities Institute.