Redress wrongs will finally be put to right

It took the bravery of a group of ordinary citizens putting their heads above the parapet and taking on the State to get justice for Magdalene survivors, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

The commitment by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that women wrongly excluded from the Magdalene laundries redress scheme will receive redress payments “without delay” is hopefully the final step on what has been a long road to justice for a small group of women.

As is often the case in Ireland, the Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing what was right.