BOOK OF SOLIDARITY: MEMBERS OF the public queued for over an hour yesterday to sign a book of solidarity in Dublin’s Mansion House for the victims of abuse.
For much of the day, the queue stretched up to St Stephen’s Green as ordinary citizens waited patiently to express their solidarity with the victims.
The signing was scheduled to end at 4pm but had to be extended past 6pm because of the numbers arriving.
By tea-time, more than 4,500 people had signed the book.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny were among those who signed over the weekend, but the throng included many former residents of institutions and their children.
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