IRELAND
Newstalk
Eimear O’Shea
Tuesday 3 June 2014
Last week Fianna Fail Galway TD Colm Keaveney told this programme he has tabled a parliamentary question with an Taoiseach.
It’s believed almost 800 babies were buried in a mass grave next to the Tuam Mother and Baby home in Co Galway between 1925 and 1961.
The home was run by the Bons Secours nuns in Galway.
Minister for State Ciaran Cannon told this programme that a “state inquiry” and a “garda investigation” is needed.
Toni Maguire is an independent consultant archaeologist and anthropologist – she has worked extensively on ‘cillini’ graves or children’s burial grounds in Northern Ireland – particularly Milltown cemetery in Belfast.
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