Pay the Magdalene women as soon as possible

IT is almost one year on since the Taoiseach gave his humble and heartfelt apology to the thousands of women who were incarcerated in Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries.

I remember the day very well as my own brother Steven was, and still is, involved with the very women who started the process. As we gathered around the TV to watch the Six One news on RTÉ we were thrilled to hear and see that the women had finally been recognised for the injustice they suffered. We were all told that is about the women and this apology was to “take back” that terrible secret “they had carried with them” for years.

The Taoiseach himself even cried as he finished his speech wile remember and quoting a line from the song ‘Whispering hope’ and I was highly impressed with how he dealt with this matter.