Louise Brangan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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They've tens of thousands of members.
They hold public masses.
They also, they see themselves as being sort of an army against sin.
And they wrote letters to the Archbishop saying, we can go where you can't.
You preach from the pulpit, we can go into the GAA club.
we're in the pub, we're in the factory.
We can be everywhere converting souls, saving souls.
And sometimes, yes, they would go up to girls that they considered pre-delinquent would be the term, you know, whose fall, again, the idea of fallen being much more capacious, much broader, not about pregnancy outside of marriage, just like a moral fall whose behaviour
looks too giddy, too lively.
And they would say, as they did to Eileen, we'll bring you somewhere better.
Yeah.
No.
And then they bring her, pull in to the Magdalene Laundry in Donnybrook.
up they go still doesn't ask questions and she says at that point the two women turn to leave and they look at and none has obviously arrived at this point and the two women before they go she said one of them looked back and said to her we're putting you in here for your own good and they leave her and she ends up spending five years there completely cut off
So they're always brought into the parlour, a room lots of, you know, we'll all be familiar, or many of us will be familiar with the parlour of, you know, going into the convent.
A nun meets them, then they bring them off into the depths of the convent complex.
They're asked to hand over their clothes.
They will be given, you know, a new underslip,
a uniform cut from calico, new shoes, lace ups, then they would be sat down and then their hair would be cut off.
And, you know, because they're not told where they're going and they're never told explicitly where they are.
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