Magdalene laundries documentary to air tonight

“YOU were classed as nothing, you were told you came from nothing and you would always go back to being nothing.”

This was how Josephine Meade described her time in a Magdalene Laundry, in a documentary which airs on TG4 tonight.

Two years after it was originally launched at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2009, The Forgotten Maggies is the only Irish-made documentary which tackles the plight of those incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.