IRELAND
RTE News
The Taoiseach has described as “truly appalling” the confirmation that significant quantities of human remains were found at the site of a former mother-and-baby home in Tuam in Co Galway.
Speaking in Castlebar, Enda Kenny said the babies of single mothers involved had been treated like “some kind of sub-species”.
He pointed out that this was not something that happened centuries ago in the dawn of history, but something that happened “in our own time”.
Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald said the discovery is an infinitely sad reminder of an Ireland that was a “very harsh, harsh place” for women and their babies.
She said it shows the tortured relationship the State and church had with pregnant women, saying “it is a tragedy that we are now facing in its entirety”.
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