IRELAND
BBC News
The Irish government has said a public inquiry into mother and baby homes will investigate how society “failed” the women and children placed in the homes.
The inquiry was announced last year, following revelations about a mass grave at a Catholic Church-run mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway.
The minister for children has set out the terms for a three-year inquiry.
James Reilly said the state “failed to come to terms with a harrowing reality in our past”.
The homes were mainly church-run institutions to which unmarried women and teenage girls were sent to give birth, as many were ostracised by their families and communities for becoming pregnant outside marriage.
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