Mary-Jo McDonagh
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Mary-Jo McDonagh spent five years in a Magdalene institution in Galway after a neighbour molested her. A priest took her away secretly one morning and said she had caused her family shame. Mary-Jo McDonagh was sent out to work for a cousin of a ‘holy nun’ and therefore could escape to England. Later speaking to Peter Mullan, the director of the film, The Magdalene Sisters, she said that the reality of the Magdalene laundries was much worse than the film.
