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Thu 07 Jul 2009Redress Board's Failure To Hear Abuse Histories A 'disgrace', Says Film-maker
MAGDALENE DOCUMENTARY: INTERVIEWS WITH FORMER INMATES SCREENED:CRITICISM OF the failure by State and religious orders to apologise to thousands of Irish women incarcerated in the Magdalene laundries was articulated by several former residents who were in Galway yesterday for the screening of a documentary on the issue.
The failure by the State’s redress board to hear the cases of such women was a “disgrace”, the documentary’s director, Steven O’Riordan said.
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