LAST YEAR, thanks to the tireless work of Catherine Corless, the
world was made aware of the 796 babies that lay forgotten in Tuam.
Those of us who have campaigned on these issues were on the one hand
relieved that the world was finally taking notice but on the other, we
thought:
‘They don’t know the half of it In the case of deaths in the Magdalene laundries, the inter-departmental committee on the laundries (IDC) made sure we only knew the half of it The McAleese report acknowledges that just over half of the 1,638 women (that we are aware of) died in these institutions.
http://www.alliancesupport.org/news/archives/004828.html
‘They don’t know the half of it In the case of deaths in the Magdalene laundries, the inter-departmental committee on the laundries (IDC) made sure we only knew the half of it The McAleese report acknowledges that just over half of the 1,638 women (that we are aware of) died in these institutions.
http://www.alliancesupport.org/news/archives/004828.html