Opposition mounts to plan to sell Magdalene site

Dublin City Council’s local representatives will vote tomorrow on a motion to halt the planned sale of a former Magdalene Laundry site to a Japanese budget hotel conglomerate. During last weekend’s visit by Pope Francis to Ireland, the site on Sean McDermott Street in central Dublin was a key symbolic focal point for protests against the Catholic Church’s record on abuse and exploitation in institutions and by clergy.

Hotel group Toyoko Inn, whose ...