The Religious Sisters of Charity welcome the publication of the McAleese Report commissioned by the Government to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries.
We apologise unreservedly to any woman who experienced hurt while in our care. In good faith we provided refuge for women at our Magdalen Homes in Donnybrook and Peacock Lane. Some of the women spent a short time with us; some left, returned and left again and some still live with us.
We co-operated fully with Senator McAleese and his Committee in the preparation of this report and made available all of our archival material. Each individual woman, if she so requests, will be welcomed and provided with any information we have on file regarding her stay with us.
ENDS
For further information: Mary Murphy : 087 233 6415
