'We have been through worse in the industrial schools': Survivors vow to continue 46-day hunger strike

From left: Mary Dunlevy Green from Limerick, aged 73; Miriam Moriarty Owens from Tralee, 68; Mary Donovan from Kerry, 57; and Maurice Patton O'Connell from Kerry, 57, outside Leinster House in Dublin. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

"We have been through worse in the industrial schools."

Those are the words of a former industrial school survivor on hunger strike at the Dáil with three others, over what they say are State failures to implement their entitlements from the redress scheme.