Saturday, October 01, 2016
IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Conall Ó Fátharta
Irish Examiner Reporter
There are “no specific plans” to carry out excavations on the grounds of other Mother and Baby Homes yet, as a preliminary excavation was approved for a site where almost 800 children from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home are reportedly buried.
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission said work will begin on the site from today and continue for approximately five weeks. It will be led by a team of specialist archaeologists under a forensic archaeologist, with the full co-operation of gardaí.
“The purpose of the excavation is to resolve a number of queries that the Mother and Baby Homes Commission has in relation to the interment of human remains at this location,” said a statement.
To date, the site in Tuam is the only site to have been physically examined for remains. Despite evidence of a higher death rate at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork and deaths in other institutions, the commission said: “There are no specific plans to carry out other excavations yet” at other sites. But it added that “no definite decisions have been made”.
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