Magdalene survivors plan protest at order’s HQ

Magdalene Laundry survivors plan to protest outside the provincial headquarters of a religious order which has refused to contribute to the State’s redress scheme.

The Cork Feminista activist group has urged people to join the solidarity protest outside the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy’s offices in Cork City from 1pm on Saturday.

In recent weeks, Magdalene survivors and their supporters have collected over 1,000 signatures calling on the four religious orders which operated the laundries — the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Mercy, the Good Shepherd Sisters, and the Religious Sisters of Charity — to pay into the Government compensation fund for the survivors.