IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Aine Hegarty
How do you measure someone’s life? Have you given a voice to those who cannot speak?
Have you bravely taken on Church and State and won? Have you been instrumental in getting laws changed and changing the course of history?
Not many people can say yes to those things but Christine Buckley did all of them during her 67 years.
She exposed the horrors that were inflicted on innocent children in Goldenbridge orphanage in Dublin.
Christine herself suffered unimaginable abuse from the age of three when she was sent there by a judge as she was found “wandering” the streets.
The daughter of a 31-year-old married woman and a 20-year-old Nigerian student, she was just three weeks old when she was fostered.
In 1950, her world would never be the same again after she was sent to Goldenbridge where she found herself in the care of the Sisters of Mercy.
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