Remembrance Ceremony To Be Held At Former Good Shepherd Convent

Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:28

The ceremony is taking place on Sunday as Pope Francis celebrates mass in the Phoenix Park

The women and children committed to Catholic Institutions in Cork and beyond did nothing wrong and deserve to be remembered.

That's according to Rose Brien Harrington who has organised a remembrance ceremony at the former Good Shepherd Convent this Sunday to honour the women and children who lived at the laundry

The ceremony is taking place as Pope Francis celebrates mass in the Phoenix Park as part of the World Meeting of Families...
Over 2,000 people from 38 Cork parishes are expected to join over half a million people to see the pontiff during his two day visit.

A second remembrance ceremony will take place at the former Bessborough mother and baby home in Blackrock later that day.
An unpublished report into the home in 2012 outlined that almost 500 children died at the institution over a 19 year period

Rose’s great aunt Ester Harrington spent 70 years at the Good Shepard Convent.

She told RedFM News that women and children like Esther were made to believe they had brought shame on themselves