DUBLIN — Ireland ignored the mistreatment of thousands of women who were incarcerated within Catholic nun-operated laundries and must pay the survivors compensation, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Tuesday in an emotional state apology for the decades of abuses in the so-called Magdalene Laundries.
‘‘By any standards it was a cruel, pitiless Ireland, distinctly lacking in a quality of mercy,’’ Kenny said, as dozens of former Magdalenes watched tearfully from Parliament’s public gallery overhead.
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Shameful, shameful behavior by the church and the state!