Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes and their advocates are calling for a wider investigation into deaths there.
Justice for Magdalenes says there are 180 agencies, homes and individuals who were involved with unmarried mothers, but says that doesnÂ’t mean there are 180 sites to investigate.
People Before Profit is calling for the Bon Secours Order to consider disbanding, in light of the discovery on Friday of significant amounts of remains at their former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.
Juliette Gash reports;
Niall Meehan, a survivor of the Protestant-run Bethany Home in Dublin, which is under investigation by the Commission of Investigation, says he knows of at least four Protestant-run homes which should be investigated.
Separately, the Magdalene Survivors Together group is calling on Dublin City Council to halt the sale of the former Magdalene Laundry at Sean Mc Dermott Street, Dublin. This is the last known Magdalene Laundry that operated in Ireland when it closed in 1996.
The Magdalene Survivors Together group is outraged that the sale of this property would go ahead when Dublin City Council and the Irish Government previously agreed with the Magdalene Survivors Together request to redevelop it as a museum and a memorial to the women of these institutions.
Chairperson for the Magdalene Survivors Together group Steven O’ Riordan says “It is with great sadness that we learned of this news. The Magdalene Redress scheme drawn up by former Judge, Justice John Quirke makes it clear in his recommendations that this laundry should be turned into a memorial to the women of the Magdalene laundries.”
The Magdalene Survivors Together has campaigned tirelessly to ensure that this building is kept in the hands of the State. The Irish Government made a promise in 2013 that they would implement all John Quirke’s recommendations; once again it would appear that the Irish Government is going to fail these women.
Magdalene Survivors Together is calling on the Taoiseach to intervene immediately on this issue.
Councillors on Dublin City Council are putting forward an emergency motion on the sale of the Sean McDermott laundry
I have lodged an emergency motion to tonight's DCC meeting requesting a halt to the sale of the Magdalene Laundry site on Sean McDermott St.
— Gary Gannon (@1GaryGannon) March 6, 2017
