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| Magdalene laundries: UK-based women meeting Enda Kenny | |
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| Irish prime minister Enda Kenny is meeting UK-based women in London who spent time in the Republic of Ireland's Magdalene laundries. | |
| About 10,000 women passed through laundries - run by Roman Catholic nuns - between 1922 and 1996. | About 10,000 women passed through laundries - run by Roman Catholic nuns - between 1922 and 1996. |
| Earlier this month a report found the Irish Republic government was involved in running the laundries, where women and girls worked without pay. | Earlier this month a report found the Irish Republic government was involved in running the laundries, where women and girls worked without pay. |
| Mr Kenny has so far stopped short of a formal apology. | Mr Kenny has so far stopped short of a formal apology. |
| The taoiseach has admitted the laundries operated in a "harsh and uncompromising Ireland" but has resisted calls from the opposition Fianna Fail party to make a formal apology from the Irish state. | The taoiseach has admitted the laundries operated in a "harsh and uncompromising Ireland" but has resisted calls from the opposition Fianna Fail party to make a formal apology from the Irish state. |
| BBC correspondent Nick Higham said: "The inmates included unmarried mothers, women guilty of petty crimes, or simply girls from broken homes. The last laundry - in a Dublin convent - closed as late as 1996." | BBC correspondent Nick Higham said: "The inmates included unmarried mothers, women guilty of petty crimes, or simply girls from broken homes. The last laundry - in a Dublin convent - closed as late as 1996." |
| The inquiry chaired by Senator Martin McAleese found 2,124 of those detained in the institutions were sent by the authorities. | The inquiry chaired by Senator Martin McAleese found 2,124 of those detained in the institutions were sent by the authorities. |
| Whole lives | Whole lives |
| Mr Kenny has offered an expression of regret for the stigma attached to former inmates. | Mr Kenny has offered an expression of regret for the stigma attached to former inmates. |
| Earlier this week he met the Magdalene Survivors Together group, who have said they are confident they will receive an apology. | Earlier this week he met the Magdalene Survivors Together group, who have said they are confident they will receive an apology. |
| Our correspondent said Mr Kenny was coming to London to talk to more than a dozen former inmates living in the UK. | Our correspondent said Mr Kenny was coming to London to talk to more than a dozen former inmates living in the UK. |
| Our correspondent said: "Some women spent their whole lives in the laundries and died there, but most stayed only a few months, and many fled Ireland after their release... never to return." | Our correspondent said: "Some women spent their whole lives in the laundries and died there, but most stayed only a few months, and many fled Ireland after their release... never to return." |
| Women were forced into Magdalene laundries for a crime as minor as not paying for a train ticket, the McAleese report found. | Women were forced into Magdalene laundries for a crime as minor as not paying for a train ticket, the McAleese report found. |
| The report also confirmed that a police officer could arrest a girl or a woman without warrant if she was being recalled to the laundry or if she had run away. | The report also confirmed that a police officer could arrest a girl or a woman without warrant if she was being recalled to the laundry or if she had run away. |
| Fianna Fail has called for the establishment of a dedicated unit within the Department of Justice to co-ordinate the Irish Republic's response to the McAleese report, including all forms of redress for the survivors. | Fianna Fail has called for the establishment of a dedicated unit within the Department of Justice to co-ordinate the Irish Republic's response to the McAleese report, including all forms of redress for the survivors. |
| The system was the subject of a 2002 film, The Magdalene Sisters, which starred Geradline McEwan and Anne-Marie Duff, whose director said at the time he believed the former inmates should have received an apology. | The system was the subject of a 2002 film, The Magdalene Sisters, which starred Geradline McEwan and Anne-Marie Duff, whose director said at the time he believed the former inmates should have received an apology. |