IRELAND
BBC News
The Irish government has launched an inquiry after the remains of nearly 800 children were discovered in an unmarked grave at a former home for unmarried mothers run by the Catholic Church.
The remains were interred in a concrete septic tank in the grounds of the home in Tuam, County Galway.
The children, aged between two days and nine years, died between 1925 and 1961.
The grave was found nearly 40 years ago, but the remains were initially believed to be from the 1850s famine.
However, local historian Catherine Corless found that the register of deaths and burials in the town did not match.
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