Magdalene redress: ‘No one gave the authority to take my mother away from me’
These are the words of Mary Merritt, a survivor of the Magdalene laundries.
She was speaking on the steps of Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday, as President Michael D Higgins welcomed 230 Magdalene laundry women to his official residence as part of a series of events called Dublin Honours Magdalenes.
