Lawyer slates McAleese report as ‘hotchpotch’

A campaigning lawyer has described part of the report into the Magdalene Laundries as a hotchpotch of guesses and omissions presented as scholarly work.

Simon McGarr, a Dublin solicitor who previously led a campaign for the expulsion of the Papal Nuncio following the publication of the Murphy report, said the executive summary of the McAleese report offers unlikely explanations to serious issues.

“The executive summary is a shameful farrago of guesses, elisions and wilful ignorance,” said Mr McGarr on his website.