IRELAND
The Herald

BY LUKE BYRNE – 10 JANUARY 2015

SEVEN Dublin mother and baby homes will be examined by a commission of investigation into the treatment and conditions of residents from the 1920s to late 1998.

St Gerard’s on Mountjoy Square and St Patrick’s at Pelletstown, Cabra, were named yesterday as Children’s Minister James Reilly published the inquiry’s terms of reference.

It emerged last year that documents belonging to the late Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid, who died in 1973, showed that St Patrick’s had high death rates in at least one year.

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The records show that one in every three babies died in the home on the Navan Road in 1933.

The Pelletstown death rate was 34pc that year.

The other Dublin homes that have been included to be examined are Belmont in Belmont Avenue, Bethany Home in Rathgar, Denny House in Eglington Road, Ms…