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Mon 06 Jun 2009Victims hail day of great happiness and healing
IT WAS “one brilliant day, 110 per cent” said Michael O’Brien, former mayor of Clonmel and one-time resident at Ferryhouse industrial school near the town. “I feel a free man now . . . The President did us and the people of Ireland proud today,” he said.
“It was a day of happiness, and a day of love and a day of deep sadness,” said Christine Buckley of the Aislinn centre in Dublin and former resident of the Goldenbridge orphanage in that city. “It took us 25 years to be believed and to be at Áras an Uachtaráin . . . the overall picture was one of great happiness,” she said.
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