Left bewildered by my primal wounds

I was interested to read your article regarding the Bethany Home and Derek Leinster last month.

I endured a four-year stay as an infant in St Patrick’s Mother and Baby home, on the Navan Rd in Dublin.

There is some evidence that some women were despatched to Magdalene laundries, which may have included my birth mother before she went to England two years after my birth.

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