Finally righting a wrong in the fight for the women who worked in Magdalene laundries

The fight for women who worked in Magdalene laundries but had been excluded from redress has finally been recognised in a report that criticises the Department of Justice’s handling of the scheme, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

The ombudsman’s investigation into how the Department of Justiceadministered the Magdalene laundries redress scheme took almost a year.