Abuse campaigner and survivor Christine Buckley dies aged 67

Irish Mirror
March 11, 2014

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Christine Buckley

Ms Buckley was an outspoken survivor of abuse at an industrial school in Ireland

Institutional abuse campaigner Christine Buckley has passed away this morning aged 67.

The Aislinn Centre co-founder died following a long cancer battle in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

Christine Buckley was abandoned at three weeks of age and was raised in the Goldenbridge orphanage in Dublin, run by the Sisters of Mercy.

Her life there was the subject of a 1996 RTE documentary that caused one of the first controversies around institutional abuse from the Catholic Church in Ireland.

She is survived by her husband, Donal, and three children.

Together with Carmel McDonnell Byrne, she co-founded the Aislinn Centre to help former residents of industrial schools like the one at Goldenbridge.

In 2009 she was chosen as the Irish Volunteer of the Year by the Ireland Involved Awards. You can watch a short film of her journey below.