Tag: The Irish Times

  • Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parent

  • Christine Buckley helped shift cultural axis on child abuse The Irish Times 2014-03-12 Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent From Broadstreet.ie Those who insist that history is about movements not individuals might reflect on the achievements of Christine Buckley. Her story is history as driven by one person. She was an original, a pioneer in exposing…

  • Campaign highlights abuse of mixed-race Irish in institutional care The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-18 Marie O’Halloran, Parliamentary Reporter ‘I was in a class all of my own, beneath everybody else along with the dogs and the pigs’ A campaign has been launched for recognition of mixed-race survivors of institutional abuse who believe they suffered…