Mary Norris, Josephine McCarthy and Mary-Jo McDonagh, all asylum inmates, gave accounts of their treatment for the 1998 Channel 4 documentary ‘Sex in a Cold Climate’. The women who testified for this documentary gave accounts of continued sexual, psychological and physical abuse while being isolated from the outside world for an indefinite amount of time. The conditions inside the Good Shepherd Convent and the treatment of the inmates was dramatised in the acclaimed 2002 film ‘The Magdalene Sisters’, written and directed by Peter Mullan.







The three main buildings - a home, convent, and orphanage have been in a derelict condition since a serious fire in 2003. The laundry building was among a number of buildings that were destroyed in that fire.







The Good Shepherd Convent site was sold to developers in 2005. In 2006 it was expected that the average price of a two-bedroom apartment in the development would be Euro 450,000.







In May 2010 the Good Shepherd Convent became another casualty of the collapsing Irish property bubble; the undeveloped site was seized by Ulster Bank.









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