White Flower Day: Thousands across the country

MORE than 3,000 people demonstrated nationwide yesterday to show solidarity with victims of child abuse.

Dublin held the largest of a series of nationwide protests at the crisis which threatened to release some of the country’s most notorious sex offenders from prison.

Monica Rowe, a Dublin mother who inspired the protest in the capital after calling Gerry Ryan’s 2FM radio show earlier this week, said she was angry at the way the Government constantly dealt with crises by using “knee-jerk reactions”.