Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny issued a full apology Tuesday to the thousands of women who suffered in church-run laundries, two weeks after stopping short of doing so. A report published a fortnight ago investigating the involvement of the Irish state in the Magdalene laundries found that more than a quarter of the 10,000 women sent to the institutions were sent there by the state. Two weeks on, Kenny said in the Dail lower house that he wanted the government and parliament to have that time to study the report properly and reflect on its findings.