The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer
Magdalene laundries
Hennigan calls for public recognition – a reckoning – of the horrors enacted within psychiatric institutions
Television: The BBC’s hysterically overcooked Magdalene-laundry series is like a reboot of EastEnders’ donkey-in-the-pub episode
Probably the youngest person to have entered a Magdalene Laundry, Maureen Sullivan was 12 when she arrived at the establishment at New Ross in 1964
Two books that are a timely reminder of Ireland’s reprehensible past
In a patriarchal world, entering a convent often granted a woman greater freedom than motherhood
Watchdog told redress board the way it retained and processed some files was in breach of data-protection legislation, departmental briefing notes show
We’re objectifying Irish women but in an illuminating, celebratory way to mark International Women’s Day 2023
The composer’s new work for Finding a Voice, the festival of music by women, is inspired by more than a century of activism
Kathleen King is still fighting at the age of 80, frustrated that the State redress scheme refuses to accept her account of events
Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry’s books include Blackrock College, Switzers, embassies and hospitals
When I went blind I was sent to a residential school, but I was determined not to live down to people’s expectations
Some €32m in awards of €11,000-€100,000 made to more than 800 survivors to date
Many restrictions placed on women have gone but remnants of past sentiment remain
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