IRELAND
Irish Times
Lorna Siggins
Galway County Council said on Tuesday night there was “no record to indicate” the discovery of human remains during the construction of houses on the Tuam mother and baby home site in the 1970s, or during subsequent development of a children’s playground.
In a statement, the local authority said it had “reviewed all relevant files connected with the development of houses and a playground, in the vicinity of the site”.
It said the “relevant files and records” had been made available to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
Last week an excavation of the site in Tuam found remains of a “significant” number of babies and infants. Local research records 796 infants and children as having died in the home run by the Bon Secours Sisters between 1925 and 1961.
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