IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY RALPH RIEGEL – 09 JUNE 2014
The Irish government will include all major mother-and-baby homes in an independent inquiry commission after the dramatic intervention of the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin.
Dr Martin said that only an independent inquiry led by a senior judicial figure could now provide the answers required from Ireland’s escalating mother-and-baby home scandal.
The move will be confirmed once gardai have concluded preliminary investigations into claims that 796 babies were buried in a septic tank near the Tuam, Co Galway, home, which was run by the Bon Secours nuns.
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has appointed two senior gardai and they will immediately begin work examining the Tuam mass grave claims.
A government source said last night that any wide-ranging commission of inquiry cannot interfere with garda investigations.
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