Survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries are being remembered this morning in the form of a rally taking place in the city centre.
This comes just days after a Magdalene Laundries campaigner has called for the removal of a statue dedicated to the Sisters of Mercy outside a former laundry in Dublin and locals in Ennis are opposing a statue dedicated to the Sisters of Mercy located near the site of a former industrial school.
The rally is set to highlight the unfulfilled promises of the State redress scheme.
The Director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Orla O’Connor, is speaking at the event later this morning. O’Connor said promises have been made, but nothing has come to fruition yet.
“The government have promised there would be consultations with the survivors in terms of how they wanted to be remembered and memorialised and this has yet to happen.”
“So we are very much in the National Women’s Council, standing with the survivors of the Magdalene laundries today to say that the government need to start this, they need to talk to the survivors and see how they want to be remembered.”
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