IRELAND
Irish Independent
BRIAN HUTTON – PUBLISHED 11 MARCH 2014
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has led a chorus of tributes to institutional abuse campaigner Christine Buckley, who has died aged 67.
Ms Buckley, who co-founded the Aislinn Centre for abuse survivors, died at St Vincent’s Hospital following a long battle with cancer.
She was a woman of courage and dignity who had helped to make Ireland a better place, said Mr Gilmore.
“Christine suffered greatly as a child growing up in the industrial school system in the Ireland of the 1950s,” he said.
“But as an adult she played a pivotal role in shining a light on the abuse suffered by children in the industrial schools and in campaigning on behalf of the many survivors of institutional abuse.”
Ms Buckley featured in the landmark Dear Daughter documentary broadcast on RTE in 1996 which recounted the horror of her time as a child in the Sisters of Mercy-run orphanage in Goldenbridge, Dublin.
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