Survivors of industrial and reformatory schools are staging a hunger strike outside the Dáil.
The four protestors – one of whom is in her seventies – began their picket at 10 o’clock last night.
The group spent their first night in a tent outside Leinster House.
Maurice Patton O’Connell, Miriam Moriarty Owens and Mary Donovan were child inmates of Pembroke Alms Industrial School in Tralee.
Mary Dunlevy Greene attended an industrial school in Limerick.
They say the State has failed survivors since then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern made his historic apology in 1999.
Their demands include the provision of Health Amendment Act (HAA) Cards that provide enhanced medical cover and a full state contributory pension to survivors of industrial and reform schools.
Maurice Patton O’Connell says he and his fellow hunger strikers are seeking justice.
