IRELAND
Newstalk
7 Mar 2017
Stephen McNeice
Last week, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes confirmed the discovery of a ‘significant amount’ of children’s remains at the site of a former Bon Secours home in Tuam.
The Co Galway home operated between 1925 and 1961. It is believed several hundred children were buried at the site, and the recovered remains are likely to date from the 1950s.
Politicians on all sides of the political divide have condemned the find, while the Archbishop Bishop of Tuam Michael Neary said he was horrified and greatly shocked to learn of the scale of the discovery.
Meanwhile, journalists from Ireland and around the world have descended on Tuam amid international shock and horror over the discovery.
Newstalk Drive reporter Henry McKean visited the Dublin Road Estate in Tuam – built in the 1960s and 70s on the site of the former mother and baby home.
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