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Irish victims seek probe into Catholic laundries

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's human rights watchdog has appealed to the government to investigate the abuse of women and girls in prison-style Catholic laundries, a long-unresolved issue of Irish abuse scandals in church-run institutions....
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