Family court reform campaign calls for urgent change as children’s shoes left at courthouses

Claire Finn, Ballyvolane, Orna McCann, Midleton and Kate O'Driscoll, Macroom at the Walk in Our Shoes 2026 solidarity campaign for family law system change, at Midleton Court House, Co Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

Little pairs of children’s shoes – some dainty satin princess slippers, some sturdy rubber boots – were carried in silence and placed at courthouses around the country on Sunday morning.

Across all 26 counties, people dressed in black and walked one mile in silence together, carrying the shoes before laying them in front of courthouses.