Plans to turn Dublin's last Magdalene laundry into a memorial site are set to be approved by councillors today.
The Office of Public Works would be in charge of making sure the former residents of mother and baby homes, industrial schools and other institutions are remembered properly. The building on Sean McDermott Street only closed its doors in 1996 after more than 11,000 were incarcerated in laundries across the country.
It had previously been handed over to Dublin City Council in the nineties which planned to use the site for housing. However, a deal to build 179 apartments on the site later collapsed.
