Roderic O’Gorman expects the first payments to be made in quarter two of this year
Magdalene laundries
Other items at Cabinet include appointment of special advocate for survivors of Magdalene laundries; update on insurance reforms; and plans to improve adult literacy
After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree progress on Magdalene laundry is happening as new Cillian Murphy film absorbs audiences
Small Things Like These, based on Claire Keegan’s novella, is dedicated ‘to more than 10,000 young women sent to Magdalene institutions for penance and rehabilitation’
Few did more to remove the barriers that separated mentally ill people from the rest of society
The mansplainers are in full ‘listen-ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading the thing all wrong
TV review: Dearbhail McDonald suggests it is time to stop seeing nuns – and, by implication, ourselves and our history – in black and white
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
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
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