Search for magdalene speaker:Gerard Craughwell (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019): Gerard Craughwell: ...in this quest to right the wrongs of the past. It is never ever too late to do so. The Ceann Comhairle said in the Dáil that the neglect of members of the Defence Forces was up there with the Magdalen laundries and other such instances of abuse. In this instance we are talking about acts of valour.
Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018): Gerard Craughwell: .... I know many of those girls today who weep in the evenings over the child they gave away. In some cases, they did not give that child away willingly. Unlike most of my colleagues, I worked in a Magdalen laundry. I serviced the gas boilers in one. I saw them. I did not see brutality. I just saw Magdalen laundries with dozens of young girls working. It never crossed my mind why they...
Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015): Gerard Craughwell: I am one of the few Members of this House who worked in a Magdalen laundry. As the son of a gas fitter, I frequently visited the Magdalen laundries in Galway to repair water heating systems. I have two abiding memories from that time. One is of the oppressive heat in the laundries. The second is of the silence among, in some cases, beautiful young women. Nobody spoke to us. We just went...

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