IRELAND
Irish Independent
Shane Phelan and Kevin Doyle
March 4 2017
A religious order which ran a mother and baby home has failed to issue an apology after a commission of investigation discovered what are believed to be the remains of hundreds of children in underground chambers at the property.
The Bon Secours Sisters said it couldn’t comment on the find, which Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone described as “disturbing”.
Significant quantities of human remains were discovered at the site of the former St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, an institution where unmarried pregnant women were sent to give birth, in Tuam, Co Galway.
The find has vindicated the painstaking research of amateur historian Catherine Corless, whose work helped lead to the setting up of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.
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