Thousands gather at rally to honour victims of church abuse

IRELAND
The Times

August 27, 2018

By Katie O’Neill

Thousands of people who gathered in Dublin city centre yesterday to honour victims of clerical abuse were told they represented “the new Ireland”.

The Stand 4 Truth demonstration, organised by Colm O’Gorman, the executive director of Amnesty International Ireland and a clerical sex abuse survivor, began at 3pm, the same time as the papal Mass in Phoenix Park.

The singers Hozier, Mary Black and Brian Kennedy, and Marian Keyes, the novelist, were among those to take to the stage outside the Garden of Remembrance.

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