IRELAND
BBC News
The discovery of human remains at the site of a home for unmarried mothers has been welcomed by the historian whose research uncovered the burials.
Catherine Corless said “finally the truth has come out” about burials of infants at the former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway.
A state-appointed inquiry confirmed on Friday that “significant quantities of human remains” were found during a dig.
The inquiry was ordered in 2014 as a result of Ms Corless’s research.
‘Underground chambers’
She found death certificates for 796 infants who died at the home from natural causes, but despite painstaking research, she has not been able to locate their burial records.
A statement from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation said test excavations carried out over the last four months had uncovered a “long structure divided into 20 chambers”.
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