{"id":37800,"date":"2025-09-23T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/37800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:46:09","slug":"kerry-survivors-of-institutional-abuse-begin-hunger-strike-outside-dail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/37800\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry survivors of institutional abuse begin hunger strike outside D\u00e1il"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The three survivors say they are settled in for the long haul and are awaiting the arrival of TDs tomorrow morning\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Survivors of Industrial and Reformatory schools Mary Donovan from Tralee with Mary Dunleavy Greene, Carlow, Maurice Patton O Connell, Caherviseen and Marian Moriarty Owen, Tralee, pictured during their hungerstrike protest outside Leinster house. Photo by Frank McGrath.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KN Hunger.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Survivors of Industrial and Reformatory schools Mary Donovan from Tralee with Mary Dunleavy Greene, Carlow, Maurice Patton O Connell, Caherviseen and Marian Moriarty Owen, Tralee, pictured during their hungerstrike protest outside Leinster house. Photo by Frank McGrath.<\/p>\n<p>Fergus Dennehy and Stephen Fernane<\/p>\n<p>KerrymanYesterday at 18:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Three Kerry survivors of industrial and reformatory schools who are on day one of a hunger strike outside the gates of D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann have said that they are prepared to go for \u2018as long as it takes\u2019 to persuade the government to grant their two important demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mary O\u2019Donovan and Miriam Moriarty Owens from Tralee, and Maurice Patton-O&#8217;Connell from Cahersiveen are a part of a six-person group who are on hunger strike at the gates of Leinster House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three survivors say they are settled in for the long haul and are awaiting the arrival of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14639,61,60,43,16585],"class_list":["post-37800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fergus-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-stephen-fernane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}