The truth about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries: ‘Women are still dying there. As late as 2024, I found death notices for women whose addresses were given as former laundries’

Brigid was 12 when she was removed from her west of Ireland home in the 1940s. She was told she was being taken away because she had been skipping school. In truth, her casual approach to class attendance was never the real reason she was cast out of society.