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Irish Independent

Eimear Phelan
Published 09/06/2014

Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn this morning supported the idea of an enquiry in to the Tuam babies scandal.

On RTÉ’s Morning Ireland Education Minister Quinn claimed that many of the headlines about the Tuam babies were “simply untrue”.

“The sensationalism and the way it has been reported is different to the facets that are known,” he said.

The Minister said that the case is not as is being reported around the world and “some of the headlines that went around the world were quite horrendous and gave a very mistaken impression of what really happened.”

This incident “is not the same as the abuse that was done in the residential institutions” he clarified said we have to remember that the mother and baby homes have “been know about and written about for quite some time.”