BOOK OF SOLIDARITY:THE LORD Mayor of Dublin, Eibhlin Byrne, yesterday announced she is to open a book of solidarity for the victims of abuse in Ireland.
“As a mother, and somebody who has worked with children all my life, I find it difficult to express the grief I feel for childhoods lost. Nothing I say or do can restore those lost lives of innocence,” she said.
Ms Byrne said she had been approached throughout Dublin by people wishing to express their solidarity with the men and women who must this week be finding old wounds reopened and buried pain re-awakened.
She said that the Mansion House would be open from 10.30am until 5pm on Saturday and from 11am until 4pm on Sunday to allow people to express their support for the victims of abuse by signing a book of solidarity.
“I invite the people of Dublin to come here over the weekend to show their support for those affected.”