Time to finally come clean

TOMORROW’S Magdalene laundries’ report is the last chance the 1,000 or so survivors still alive have to get the public vindication they crave.

For many thousands more it is already far too late.

For the 1,000 or so survivors, their foremost desire is that the wrongs perpetrated against them be acknowledged and that the State and religious orders apologise for their role in depriving them of their freedom, their youth, their dignity and for exploiting them as unpaid labour.