A total of 14 women who were in An Grianán training centre post-1980 and worked in the attached High Park Magdalene laundry in Dublin have yet to receive a provisional offer for redress from Mr Flanagan’s department. Human rights lawyer Colin Smith pointed out that the High Court accepted in 2017 that children worked at High Park into the 1980s and said the delay in granting the women redress was “obscene”. They point out that the claim by the order that women did not work in An Grianán after 1980 is “incorrect”. “We confirm that we worked in the Magdalene laundry,” it states. We were not paid for the work that we did as children in the Magdalene laundry,” states the letter sent to Mr Flanagan.

Source: Irish Examiner March 07, 2019 05:48 UTC