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Five years ago, I was privileged to visit Chernobyl with Adi Roche and @Chernobyl.
It was a life-changing experience.
Thinking today of the victims of the disaster, those living with its legacy, and those working to help them.
#Chernobyl35
It was a life-changing experience.
Thinking today of the victims of the disaster, those living with its legacy, and those working to help them.
#Chernobyl35
From 2016, with pics by @claremkeogh https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-20394523.html?type=amp
We spent several days at an orphanage. That’s @Chernobyl volunteer Trina, former Lord Mayor Chris O’Leary and Adi Roche
Heroic work
The abandoned city of Pripyat
Inside an abandoned school
School books still open on the page they were studying when the evacuation was ordered
About as close as I’d like to get to Chernobyl ground zero
Before the sarcophagus was rolled over the reactor
Adi Roche working with local political leaders - reminding them of their responsibilities to the victims of Chernobyl
The local constabulary checking the NUJ card
More some coverage of that visit: https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-20394775.html?type=amp
And the final day of our 2016 coverage: https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-20395006.html?type=amp
