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	Industrial School Abuse Claim Irish Examiner [Ireland] May 2, 2007 http://www.oneinfour.org/news/news2007/faulkner/ The State, the Mercy Order and the Archbishop of Tuam have asked the High Court to dismiss proceedings brought by a woman who claims she was subject to physical and emotional abuse and unconstitutionally detained at an industrial school in the West of Ireland for almost 20 years. In 1946, Dolores Faulkner, with an address in Longford town, was brought before the courts in Dublin for begging, when she was two-and-a-half years old. She was sent to St Joseph's Industrial School in Clifden, Co Galway, and was there between the years 1946 and 1965. She claims that the court ordered that she was to be detained there until she turned 16 in 1960, but was kept unconstitutionally at that school until she was 21 in 1965. She was then sent to a nursing school in England by the Mercy nuns and remained under their dominion.
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