IRELAND
Irish Post
AN excavation is underway this week at the site of an alleged mass grave at a former mother and baby home in Ireland.
The excavation in Tuam , Co. Galway was ordered by the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation to start on October 1 and last five weeks.
The site at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home came to light in 2014 after it was alleged that as many as 796 bodies were buried at the site.
Here’s what we know about the story so far…
796 children died
In 2012 Tuam historian Catherine Corless was working on a local history project when she began researching St Mary’s Home for Unmarried Mothers.
The home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters on behalf of Galway County Council from 1925 to 1961.
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