No deal to end industrial abuse hunger strike

A MEETING with the Taoiseach has failed to end a 40-day hunger strike by four industrial abuse survivors.

- BY CIARA O'LOUGHLIN

Maurice O'Connell, Mary Donovan, Miriam Moriarty Owens and Mary Dunlevy Green have been sleeping rough outside Leinster House and have gone without food for 40 days and 40 nights.

They are calling for long-promised state support for Boarded Out survivors, who were sent to family farms while in state care. Many were subject to strenuous manual labour and some were abused.