A woman who had gone on hunger strike in protest over housing is taken to hospital after collapsing.
Twenty year old Breda Morris was on the fifth day of a hunger strike along with four other women when she collapsed and was taken to St Kevin's Hospital.
Breda Morris, Anne Brady, Mary Quinn, Christine Kearney and Catherine Flynn were refusing food in protest for housing for themselves and their families. The women were staying in Dublin Health Authority emergency accommodation at Griffith Barracks. In being housed there they have been separated from their husbands.
John Morris, husband of Breda, said that women went on hunger strike of their own choice. The husbands were unable to gain access to their wives to persuade them otherwise.
Our wives are doing it because they think there's nothing else worth living for and if they can't live like human beings, they say they might as well be dead.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 December 1963. The reporter is Kevin O'Kelly.
