Sam Jordison: Magdalene Laundries

In case you're wondering what these women are fighting for, here's an article I wrote for Disinformation back in 2006.  It took a chance discovery to set in motion the chain of events that led to the unravelling of the mystery of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.
In 1993 a mass grave was discovered in the grounds of a Catholic nunnery in the north of Dublin. The grave was found on land that The Good Shepherd nuns from High Park Convent had sold to a developer, to build the kind of brash new development that has characterised Ireland’s economic miracle during the past 15 years. At first it was thought that there were 133 bodies. They were all female.

http://samdjordison.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/magdalene-laundries.html