Vigil for Rosie McKinney heard 'she got justice in the end' from sharing her incredible story

Maureen Sullivan, Rosie Mc Kinney's daughter Margaret, Dianne Croghan, and Patricia Twomeyb with Joe Costello outside the Seán McDermott Street former Magdalene Laundry. Picture: Moya Nolan

The daughter of a woman who had two children taken by the nuns in the Tuam mother and baby home has said her mother “got justice in the end” when the world read her harrowing story.

Rosie McKinney, aged 86, made headlines last year, when she told the Irish Examiner how she had threatened to set her dogs on the nuns and gardaí when tried to return her to a Magdalene Laundry in Galway after she escaped.