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 on Sunday night.
The group are sleeping in a tent near Leinster House.
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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.
