Sinead O'Connor 'made Ireland a different place' by speaking out about Catholic church abuse
A woman who suffered abuse in one of the same institutions as Sinead O’Connor said the singer “made Ireland a different place” by speaking out on church and state exploitation.
Sinead spoke openly about abuse she faced in a Magdalene laundry as a teenager, where she spent more than a year. A guard of honour was made for the late singer by survivors as her funeral procession passed by her former Bray home.
Maureen Sullivan, who came to see the funeral procession, said she was one of the thousands of women incarcerated in the institutions. She said she was put into the laundry at age 12 after being abused by a family member.
She added: “I’m a survivor of the Magdalene laundry ... and I done four years in these places, trafficked from one to the other.”
Some of those gathered at the funeral held signs highlighting the exploitation that many children faced in Irish church and state institutions. Sinead ignited vitriol when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992, in protest against abuse in the Catholic Church.
Ms Sullivan said the singer highlighting the problem so publicly in the face of such intense backlash gave survivors strength.
She added: “It gave us all courage, it gave us all strength. She gave strength to so many women. And the only thing I feel so sad about was the way she was treated in Ireland, I think that people should have supported her more. So my hope for her is that she has gone into the light, and I hope she’s in a better place because she deserves it.”
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A woman who suffered abuse in one of the same institutions as Sinead O’Connor said the singer “made Ireland a different place” by speaking out on church and state exploitation.
Sinead spoke openly about abuse she faced in a Magdalene laundry as a teenager, where she spent more than a year. A guard of honour was made for the late singer by survivors as her funeral procession passed by her former Bray home.
Maureen Sullivan, who came to see the funeral procession, said she was one of the thousands of women incarcerated in the institutions. She said she was put into the laundry at age 12 after being abused by a family member.
She added: “I’m a survivor of the Magdalene laundry ... and I done four years in these places, trafficked from one to the other.”
Some of those gathered at the funeral held signs highlighting the exploitation that many children faced in Irish church and state institutions. Sinead ignited vitriol when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992, in protest against abuse in the Catholic Church.
Ms Sullivan said the singer highlighting the problem so publicly in the face of such intense backlash gave survivors strength.
She added: “It gave us all courage, it gave us all strength. She gave strength to so many women. And the only thing I feel so sad about was the way she was treated in Ireland, I think that people should have supported her more. So my hope for her is that she has gone into the light, and I hope she’s in a better place because she deserves it.”
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