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THE YOUNGEST MAGDALENE laundries survivor has spoken out against comments by two nuns who defended the institutions in an interview aired last night.
Maureen Sullivan of the Magdalene Survivors Together Group told TheJournal.ie: “I think they [the nuns] are stopping the women from healing. The women were starting to heal and forgive but now it’s going to be very difficult for them.”
An interview with the two unnamed nuns who were involved in running the laundries, dubbed Sister A and Sister B, featured on RTÉ Radio 1 programme The God Slot last night. When asked about an apology from the religious orders, Sister A said: “Apologise for what? Apologise for providing a service?” Later in the interview one of the sisters said:
It’s easier for these women to blame the nuns than blame their mammy or their daddy.
The interview was read on air under the condition that the sisters and their order were not revealed – which Sullivan said was a sign that the nuns were hiding again.
She called on Sister A and Sister B to “say sorry for what they’ve said”.
This is the first time that individual nuns from the religious orders involved in the Magdalene laundries have spoken about their views on the McAleese Report.
Speaking about the issue of the money earned by the laundries, Sister B said that any money the laundry made went into food and housing: “We have always lived very frugal lives. The money went into feeding them [the women who worked in the laundries]“.
Sullivan disputes this. “They didn’t feed us, they fed themselves,” she said. “They lived in warmth and ate comfort food. We didn’t. We kept them actually and I think they owe us.”
During the interview Sister A elaborated on the issue of money, saying: “The laundry was a way to make a living and keep a roof over their heads”. She also said that the possible figure of €200,000 in compensation for survivors would be “excessive”.
Sullivan pointed out that the religious orders have plenty of money. “We were horrified about [the interview] but in a way we’re not surprised because I think the Government was going to ask them to contribute,” she said. “This is about money.”
In a statement, Magdalene Survivors Together said the group was “shocked, horrified and enormously upset” by how the nuns portrayed the laundries.
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You also have to have a lot of free space available …. About 4gb I think , that means you can’t have to many apps or pictures on your phone .. Pain in the ass having to delete them all
Plug your phone into iTunes and you won’t need to.
That’s if you install it over without iTunes (over WiFi), just install it with iTunes and you don’t have to worry about space.
Cheers
I’d say this is holding a lot of people back in fairness
Ios8.2 still has a few bugs. I’d hold off updating for a while yet
iMessage and E-mail banner notifications like to ‘hang’ ontop of the screen after the timeout delay, it’s a little annoying.
I’m still having wifi connection issues. I’m regretting updating
Facebook keeps crashing for me since even after deleting the app and reinstalling.
That’s actually doing you a favour Conor!
@Conor Both Facebook and Apple are to blame for that. iOS 8 has removed a lot of functionality and replaced it with improved implementations. A lot of the time this results in the code trying to execute something that no longer exists and that causes the crash.
Facebook and all other app developers had advanced beta versions of iOS 8 well in advance of the official launch, so they should have ironed out all of those kinks in good time. But for things like notifications, which have undergone a big rejig, Apple defaults to crashing if they’re not done the modern way, which they didn’t need to do, it was a design choice. I’d say the majority of the apps that are crashing because of iOS 8 are doing so because notifications weren’t updated or tested fully.
On 8.0 I found my keyboards kept forgetting that I had made swift key my default, 8.02 fixed that.
I’m getting far more force closures now – even with the settings app, I used to get them with this party apps and figured that was the developers fault, but now it happens with the in built apps too.
Apparently the most important reason to update is the security updates, it fixed some of the vulnerability issues if you’re using a public WiFi network, which is kinda crucial.
This party apps? third.. Still getting used to swift key..
I just realised I’m still on iOS 6
ios 5 here.
Probably wait till all bugs are caught, got stung in the past updating too soon, last time round battery life was shocking due to a wifi issue … Guessing most are thinking the same?
Updated the ipad to 8 and the wifi connectivity is crap. download speeds have dropped siginificantly and the connection keeps dropping/reconnecting every few seconds. Avoid until they patch this.
Updated at the weekend ios 8 is brilliant I would recommend every apple customer who can to update.
I bet you microwaved it to charge it aswell…
Frank is if safe to assume you don’t own an iPhone? Buy one you won’t regret it you’ll never consider any other Apple rip off again.
You had me at hello…
I’d an awful time updating mine, took all day (& half the night) to do. Some error occurred at the end & my phone was stuck on recovery mode … Took about 20 attempts to restore it … Nightmare. Now I’m just like ‘meh’ all that effort for what?!
Kind of a pointless statistic given that it included devices that can not be upgraded to ios8
The differences between 7 & 8 aren’t all that major, on the surface at least. The reason for the large adoption of iOS 7 when it came out was because it was such a radical departure from iOS 6 and everyone rushed to download it.
A better comparison would between the adoption rates going from iOS 5 to 6.
Ah but ios 7 made your phone waterproof so people rushed to download it.
Is a requirement by law to update it or something?
Many like myself will not be updating till ios 8 is jailbroken.
Update completed just as 8.2 arrived glad to report no problem delighted with new look and extras
Updated mine & phone started Over heating. Apple replaced it after 3 weeks of crap & this one keeps crashing out. #neverbuyinganotherappleiphone
Since I updated I’ve had niggly little problems,Apple can piss off,after four years of iPhones I’m getting an android device,a change is as good as a rest and all that,can’t be arsed with all the “syncing” anytime you want to do anything,o can’t wait to just load up an SD card and away I go….
Shame Apple feel the need to compel all their customers to either pay for extra GB’s (32gb or 64gb), or extra I-Cloud GB! IOS8 is a complete waste of time, & GB, absolutely rubbish!
This is unreal.. They only made about 8 phones.. same manufacturer for each one.. same closed system.. youd think they can test them all properly for bugs.. how is it you don’t see these bugs in the same scale with android releases?
I can’t down load it that’s y I have everything off my phone and still can’t get enough space and now my phone is slow has fxxk over it it’s a joke what u have to keep doing to the phones
Why can’t they upgrade without the consequence of killing the battery?
More processes means more power to the processor.. Equals more battery usage.. They should just pare down the bloatware.
Phone has become slow.
Apple support told me
Settings -general-reset -reset all settings -
It has made it a bit faster
But you loose all your settings etc and by the time you put them back I would imagine it grinds to a halt again
“Hello Hello, my iphones gone really slow, it’s everything I wish I didn’t know…”
Still having problems with reception for phone calls won’t be up dating to anything else in a hurry.
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