Christine Buckley made Ireland ‘a better place’

Tributes have been pouring in following the death of Christine Buckley, one of the first people to speak out publicly about institutional abuse in this country.

Executive director of One in Four Maeve Lewis said Ireland “was a better place” because of Ms Buckley, while Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald described her as a woman who “led the charge to lift the veil on Ireland’s dark past”.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said Christine and Goldenbridge orphanage survivors “made a personal impact on me that remains with me to this day”.