What if the Republic of Ireland Shut Down Magdalen Laundries Sooner?

I mean, it achieved complete independence from Great Britain in 1949 but the last of the Magdalen Laundries run by the Church and administered by nuns who brutalized thousands of Irish women and girls in their charge was not shut down until 1996! Could the newly independent Republic of Ireland had done this sooner citing laws against unlawful imprisonment? I know that Ireland was VERY Catholic but it had GOTTEN independence so it no longer needed to placate the Church in this regard. Moreover, it doesn't seem as though these punitive laundries existed in other Catholic nations so that makes it a localized blight rather than something outside forces inflicted. Anyway, does anyone want to speculate on HOW the Republic of Ireland could have ended the laundries sooner [and perhaps had the Church compensate the unlawfully imprisoned inmates for the injuries,etc. that had been inflicted on them]?
 
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I mean, it achieved complete independence from Great Britain in 1949 but the last of the Magdalen Laundries run by the Church and administered by nuns who brutalized thousands of Irish women and girls in their charge was not shut down until 1996! Could the newly independent Republic of Ireland had done this sooner citing laws against unlawful imprisonment? I know that Ireland was VERY Catholic but it had GOTTEN independence so it no longer needed to placate the Church in this regard. Moreover, it doesn't seem as though these punitive laundries existed in other Catholic nations so that makes it a localized blight rather than something outside forces inflicted. Anyway, does anyone want to speculate on HOW the Republic of Ireland could have ended the laundries sooner [and perhaps had the Church compensate the unlawfully imprisoned inmates for the injuries,etc. that had been inflicted on them]?

Not spiritual independance!!
Those institutions were not implaced by the UK government but the Catholic Church with the full support of the Catholic Irish people!
 
I assume there are human right clauses in the Irish Constitution. Imagine someone managing to sue the institutions for slavery and false imprisoment, maybe in the late 1960s?
 
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