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Mon 07 Jul 2009Call for apology to survivors of laundries
THE STATE has been called on to apologise to former residents of Magdalen laundries and to set up a new redress scheme, distinct from that available at the Residential Institutions Redress Board, for former residents of the laundries.
James Smith, associate professor at the English department in Boston College and author of the recently published book Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries, and Mari Steed, of the Justice for Magdalenes group, said the State must “recognise, and thus apologize for, its failure to protect the legal rights of women who always remained citizens of the State”.
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