Letters to the Editor: Health cards for laundry survivors are an urgent need

'Hopefully, the present Government will do the right thing and honour our proper health card'

Tuam mother and baby home campaigner Anna Corrigan during a protest outside Leinster House in October, 2021. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

As a survivor of the Magdalene laundries, I fully support Seán McDermott St being turned into a site of conscience and remembrance for every Magdalene laundry survivor who suffered at the hands of State and Church all over Ireland.

They were terrible times in our history. A big thank you goes to the members of the Justice For Magdalenes Research: Maeve O’Rourke, Catherine O’Donnell, James Smith, and Claire McGettrick, who is a survivor herself. Thank you also to Gary Gannon and Mannix Flynn, and to all the Magdalene laundry survivors themselves who fought hard for the centre, including Mary Smith, who started up the Justice For Magdalenes group in Dublin in 2009.