A moral obligation

The Government’s recent tough talk that religious orders should pay compensation to Magdalene survivors is at odds with its stance on the McAleese report, writes Conall Ó Fátharta

IT HAS been instructive in recent days to hear Justice Minister Alan Shatter lay down the gauntlet to the religious orders who ran the Magdalene Laundries.

Mr Shatter spoke of how the Government, the public, and the survivors expect that the Mercy Sisters, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Charity, and the Good Shepherd Sisters should cough up and contribute towards the compensation scheme.