IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY NICOLA ANDERSON AND CAROLINE CRAWFORD – 12 JUNE 2014
Teddies, babygrows and children’s shoes were the poignant tributes left at the gates of the Irish Parliament last night during a candlelit vigil marking the deaths of 796 babies in a mother and baby home in Co Galway.
One message inked on a tiny babygrow read: “For the babies we hold in our hearts, and not in our arms.”
A march took place from outside the Department for Children in Dublin under banners demanding justice. Earlier, two seven-year-old girls, Dasha Dlyaritskaya-Hilliard and Juliette Bruce Merzouk from Dublin, delivered a petition to Irish Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald.
Signed by 30,000 people from more than a dozen countries, it urged the Irish Government to escalate investigations into mother and baby homes.
Around 250 people turned up for the rally, which began with song and verse, before a minute’s silence was observed for the young lives lost.
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