Thousands gather at rally to honour victims of church abuse
By Katie O’neill
Times
August 27, 2018
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thousands-gather-at-rally-to-honour-victims-of-church-abuse-scandal-dublin-stand-4-truth-brl0sh8nd
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Protesters gather outside the site of former Magdalene laundry in Dublin on Sunday |
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.
The rally was attended by abuse survivors, including Marie Collins, who resigned from the Vatican’s pontifical commission on the protection of minors, and who met Pope Francis on Saturday.
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