Maureen Sullivan is the youngest known survivor admitted to one of the Magdalene laundries. She was an innocent 12-year-old child when taken from h...

The Irish government has apologised to the thousands of women locked up in Catholic-run workhouses known as Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996....

The leader of the Catholic church in Ireland has apologised to a victim of paedophile priest, Father Brendan Smyth. Brendan Boland was among those ...

An organisation that found the majority of Irish Catholics want to ordain women and allow priests to marry is meeting on Monday to discuss the future ...

The Vatican has described abuse within the Irish Catholic church as "painful" and a 'betrayal", acknowledging it led to a "loss of trust" with priests...