IRELAND
Daily Mail (UK)
More mass baby graves in Ireland? Prime Minister Enda Kenny orders an investigation as memorial for 800 dead babies is planned
By HARRIET ARKELL and FERGHAL BLANEY
PUBLISHED: 03:17 EST, 6 June 2014 |
Irish officials are to investigate whether there are more mass baby graves after the discovery of 800 infants buried in a septic tank outside an old mother and baby home in Co. Galway.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny intervened from the United States yesterday to say that he had ordered his officials to ‘see what the scale is, what’s involved here, and whether this is isolated or if there are others around the country that need to be looked at.’
He spoke as human rights group Amnesty called for an urgent formal investigation into the evidence that suggested 796 children, from newborns to eight-year-olds, were secretly buried without coffins in a tank outside the former home in Tuam.
Historian Catherine Corless, whose discovery was revealed by the Mail earlier this week, said her study of death records for the St Mary’s home run by Catholic Bon Secours nuns from 1925-1961 pointed to the existence of the mass grave.
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