Let’s not repeat attitudes we are quick to condemn

Someone very dear to me was a resident of a Good Shepherd convent from the 1920s until her death over 20 years ago.

I’ve no doubt prior to my knowing her, she had difficult times but in the 15 or so years of her life that I remember she was a happy, well respected and well looked after member of her community within and outside of the convent gates.

She would have found the often-sensationalist and antagonistic public discourse surrounding the experience of women in the Magdalene laundries very difficult.