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so Master Allen is concerned for the victims…. or his chance to get a slice of the financial action… I say we set up a pro bono volunteer service to help the elderly ladies fill in the forms and bypass the legal parasites… Any volunteers?
Those misfortunes should be allowed every possible state assistance now that most if them are in their twilight years. The state took away their childhood, let us not allow them to pass away without real meaning.
I would like to see legal advice for the nuns who ran the laundries.
Most nuns hand over their income to their order thereby working for their keep. Just like the ladies.
It was a crap situation all round.
Society at the time was responsible. The parents who locked their”erring daughters” into the laundries were responsible.
The people who walked past these places were responsible.
The business’s that used the service were responsible.
The government rush to get compensation is quiet hateful.
Sisters, get legal advice. You will not be thanked if you allow yourselves to be made doormats of.
Other charitable organisations should beware. As society changes, what you do today as charity, may be viewed as abuse in 30 to 40 years time, with the then government trudging to strip your funds to compensate the “victims” you are helping today as best you know how.
We let these laundries exist as a solution to our attitudes and now we want to lay the blame pin them, demanding compensation .
Sisters, get legal advice. You will protect all other charities from the actions of greedy governments by doing so.
Who is this “we”? I for one did not know about these laundries until the 1990s when they applied to move the graves at Gracepark.
And in general, women entered the Orders voluntarily and knew they could leave. Magdalens were often taken from their homes in the middle of the night and dumped in laundries, many not knowing they could leave, many whose families were told they had run away. Then they were put to work in awful circumstances. There is no comparison between the nuns and the girls.
As for legal advice – as in every situation, all parties should have it. It should be capped to avoid abuse of the system. You can be damn sure the Government will have a truck load of (expensive) lawyers on its side paid for by the Irish taxpayer.
I don’t like to see the lawyers get any money from this but if a individual seeks expert legal advice then it’s their choice and nobody has a right to stop them. If they choose to go this route they should expect to pay their lawyers from their own compensation.
There is no way lawers should be involved at the expensive of tax payers,lawers have in the past grossly overcharged and it should be made clear to them the gravey train has run dry.
What a hard neck they have,they who benefit from free legal aid system and high prices they charge
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