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COP PROBE BEGINS Gardai have become involved in the Tuam investigation after large number of human remains were discovered at the site

By Gary Meneely
Irish Sun
March 5, 2017

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Entrance to the site of a mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway

Gardai have become involved

A handwritten note painted in memory of the 800 children on the site

Housing Minister Simon Coveney

A large number of human remains — aged up to three years — were discovered at the site, a former institution where unmarried women were sent to give birth.

The home, run by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam, Co Galway, was demolished in the 1970s to make way for a local authority housing estate.

In a statement last night, gardai told the Irish Sun: “An Garda Siochana is liaising with the Coroner on this matter.”

Speaking yesterday, Housing Minister Simon Coveney said that Garda involvement in the probe could not be ruled out. Mr Coveney declared there was also significant responsibility on the State.

Mr Coveney said: “When you look at the way in which children’s bodies were discarded . . . 17 of the 20 chambers had remains in them, it’s hard to see that there wouldn’t be garda involvement.

“I mean people shouldn’t only talk here about the Bon Secours Sisters, although obviously they have questions to answer, but this was a site that was owned by the State and it’s a site that’s still owned by Galway County Council, so there’s a significant responsibility on the State here, as well as the Bon Secours Sisters.”The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation began excavations at the Tuam site in October 2016, uncovering remains of babies aged from 35 foetal weeks to children aged three years, understood to have been buried between 1925 and 1961.




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