McDowell’s gag would jail honest whistleblowers among the gardaí

GROWING up in the 1950s one often heard rantings from the pulpit about slave labour camps in atheistic Russia.

Stalin was the Antichrist. But now we find we had our own slave labour camp here in the form of the Magdalene Laundry, run by the Sisters of Our Lady Charity.

Those nuns took in 'fallen' women and gave them a home, worked them till they dropped and then, in many instances, buried them without even the dignity of the death certificate which is required by law.