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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny fell short of offering a formal government apology over state involvement in sending women to work in the notorious Magdalene Laundries, Catholic-run workhouses that operated in Ireland during much of the 20th Century.
An inquiry into government involvement in the Laundries, described brutal conditions in which the women worked unpaid, while others described the situation as “white slavery”.
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