Warrior, survivor, advocate, charmer — Christine Buckley was a hero among heroes

In the early ’90s, her lone voice exposed a dark period in history, writes Conall Ó Fátharta

CHRISTINE BUCKLEY first spoke of the horrific abuse she suffered as a little girl in Goldenbridge orphanage more than 20 years ago.

Her story was eventually to become one of many but, when she first spoke to Gay Byrne in 1992 of her experiences as a child in the Sisters of Mercy-run Goldenbridge orphanage, she was a lone voice exposing a dark and shameful period in Irish social history.