IRELAND
Irish Independent
Kevin Doyle
March 3 2017
SIGNIFICANT quantities of human remains have been discovered at a Galway site excavated by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.
The Commission has described itself as “shocked” by the discovery made in Tuam over recent weeks.
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is currently probing how unmarried mothers and their babies were treated between 1922 and 1998 at 18 State-linked religious institutions.
A small number of the remains discovered in Tuam were recovered for the purpose of analysis.
“These remains involved a number of individuals with age-at-death ranges from approximately 35 foetal weeks to 2-3 years,” the body said.
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