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The Freedom of Galway City Award

In 2022 Andy Hugo and Declan found out that their mother Ina McEnte would be given the freedom of Galway City Award. Catherine O'Donnell from University College Dublin told us that Galway was full of people who secretly kept women and girls in their houses. But still the laundry stayed open until 1984. And there's a plaque every day I pass it on the wall beside the middle of the laundry which is there in honor of my mother. Every time I won't pass it because I know what she sees and I know she's happy.

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