IRELAND
Irish Independent
UPDATED 11 MARCH 2014
Christine Buckley, the courageous campaigner for victims of institutional abuse, has passed away after a long illness.
Christine was the director of the Aislinn support and education group for survivors of Industrial Schools in Ireland.
Her husband Donal Buckley told independent.ie: “She was a warrior for people’s rights, a warrior for education, a warrior for people trying to trace their parents. She was a warrior against injustice.”
Christine campaigned tirelessly on behalf of victims of institutional abuse for more than 25 years.
From the age of just three weeks, she was placed in care, and raised in St. Vincent’s Industrial School, in Goldenbridge.
She spoke privately about her own personal experiences in 1984, and then went public in 1992.
She is herself a survivor of several types of institutional abuse.
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