IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Institutional abuse campaigner Christine Buckley has passed away this morning aged 67.
The Aislinn Centre co-founder died following a long cancer battle in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.
Christine Buckley was abandoned at three weeks of age and was raised in the Goldenbridge orphanage in Dublin, run by the Sisters of Mercy.
Her life there was the subject of a 1996 RTE documentary that caused one of the first controversies around institutional abuse from the Catholic Church in Ireland.
She is survived by her husband, Donal, and three children.
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