92.5 Phoenix FM #PadraigHurley Thnx 4opp2talkabt 31st anniversary of #HighPark #MagdalenLaundry: 🇮🇪Financial stress caused 155 women 2B exhumed 🇮🇪Many Qs on those exhumations, cremations, reinterments 🇮🇪Draft Bill for Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais cld bring recognition for #InvisibleDead

Please bear witness. #SmallThingsLikeThese #MagdalenLaundry #Motherandbabyhomes #Ireland

“Small things like these” by Claire Keegan is the story of #Incarceration in Ireland’s #MagdalenLaundry. Set in the Winter of 1984 the central character Bill, a family man, delivers coal to the Convent and Laundry. One day he meets a young girl who is trying to escape ….⬇️

#Ireland #MagdalenLaundries #Dublin #Cremation #Justice As today is the 31st Anniversary of the #exhumation #cremation & #reinterment of the #HighPark #MagdalenLaundry women. I am re-issuing my short film on the 2023 dedication at the former HP site youtu.be/sAQKnQ2F2ds?si…

#Ireland #MagdalenLaundries #Dublin #Exhumation #Cremation #Justice Today is the 31st Anniversary of the #reinterment of Women from #HighPark #MagdalenLaundry in #Dublin Many Qs remain unanswered Today, I re-issue my 30th anniversary film; pls share youtu.be/PiL8kzOhFU4?si…

We are a #Republic. Force #Change for the common good when such entities as Vatican News walk away from their responsibilities leaving taxpayer picking up the tab. They’ve contributed nothing - not one cent - to the #MagdalenLaundry #RedressScheme and are walking the same 6/7

If the women misbehaved in Galway #MagdalenLaundry the Mother Superior explained in the 1950’s “We stop their food” reduced to one meal daily. We know women were trafficked from there to St.Brigid’s Ballinasloe Mental Hospital. It accommodated approx 2,000 patients in 1950s

Another #MagdalenLaundry, this time in Cork where the remains of women who worked at the laundry lie in graves lacking respect and dignity. There are too many such cases.

to an institution for being poor, for being an orphan, for being a bit different, for being pregnant and for being a woman, and an Ireland where the State, the dominant church and society colluded in making it so.” -Eamon Gilmore, (Dáil Éireann 19/2/2013 #MagdalenLaundry 3/3

The Good Shepherd #Orphanage & #MagdalenLaundry where 195 women and girls died. The Good Shepherd Sisters ran the institution until its closure in 1977. Read @mir_ocall post below re/ her family members. #TheyDidNothingWrong #RestInPeace 💔💔💔

excluded from the #MagdalenLaundry Redress Scheme because the laundry she worked in was not eligible under the scheme. Following a lengthy legal battle involving the State’s Ombudsman, Mary and girls/women previously excluded were admitted; the award for Mary being a lump 3/

John McGrath Clodagh Finn Yes -a lady who would not be silent. She continued to challenge so the #MagdalenLaundry women’s voices were heard and testimonies recorded verbatim, a woman of substance #DrFrancesFinnegan. Piece titled “Accountability” via Broadsheet is worth reading broadsheet.ie/tag/sex-in-a-c…

candle while Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston delivered the sermon. The building is almost entirely built of local limestone; a small Chapel of the same stone was built adjoining the #MagdalenLaundry prior to the Cathedral’s construction. 2/7

Read how State facilitated (without sanction it appears) decades late registration of deaths at the Galway #MagdalenLaundry with details of women (including age) “unknown” women enslaved -v-pomp ceremony afforded to #EamonCasey despite RCC hierarchy knowing abuse allegations 😔

Why is it that jurisdictions such as #Ireland and #Australia think they can deny certain survivors #Redress for institutional abuse. Ombudsman stepped in when certain #MagdalenLaundry women were excluded in 2017. Who will step up for 24,000 #MotherAndBabyHome survivors today?

“Some stay for life” was a comment made to the Scottish travel writer Halliday Sutherland by the Reverend Mother at the Galway #MagdalenLaundry. Also true for #MotherAndBabyHome residents. See below⬇️. I met a relative #Ann at #Bessboro last Sunday at #MemorialEvent

1/4 “ We were not allowed to talk to each other. I was so short I needed a stool to put washing in. The noise was desperate. I thought I would go mad from the silence. The heat was unbelievable” - Testimonies of #MagdalenLaundry survivors cited in Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais by #EndaKenny

Perhaps ⬇️ explains the late registration of deaths within Galway’s #MagdalenLaundry. Deaths registered with State by Sisters of Mercy in 2013 for women who died there between 1922-1954. Age, cause of death; duration of stay is unknown. Their names are on tombstones in city,

1/7. Ive already seen too much … heard the stories first hand; the girls whose beauty would “turn a man’s head” incarcerated in a #MagdalenLaundry. No representation, no regulation, returned by Gardai if escaped; the only route out was “in a box” buried without ceremony

“I’ve felt that there was a great injustice served to us. Sometimes, I think we were punished for being born.”  - Gabrielle O'Gorman, #MagdalenLaundry Gabrielle O Gorman was placed in the laundry at 17 years of age, for no reason. She states that England was “her saviour”