Magdalene redress scheme set to be extended

Women who worked in St Finbarr’s Industrial School and Marymount Training Centre in Cork are among those who may benefit from the Government decision to extend its Magdalene laundries redress scheme to 14 additional institutions.

The extension of the Magdalen Restorative Justice Scheme beyond the 12 laundries to women resident in adjoining institutions comes as up to 200 laundry survivors arrive in Dublin for a two-day event at which they will be honoured.

The decision to expand redress comes more than six months after Ombudsman Peter Tyndall published a scathing report into the scheme, which found the Department of Justice had wrongly refused some Magdalene laundry survivors access to redress payments.