IRELAND
Joe
BY ALAN LOUGHNANE
Something for your Wednesday night.
TV3 will broadcast a shocking documentary which looks into the true scale of the scandal involving Mother and Baby homes this week.
Following the horrific discovery of a mass grave in Tuam last week which contained the bodies of as many as 800 babies, TV3’s documentary will look into the scandal which saw tens of thousands of women incarcerated against their will and exceptionally high rates of infant mortality.
Featuring interviews with people who lived in the homes, the documentary was originally aired in 2014 but will be shown again on TV3 at 11pm on Wednesday.
It examines how the scandal was not isolated in the Catholic Church but tells another story of Bethany Home in Dublin, run by the Church of Ireland. In this home child mortality rates were exceptionally high and mass graves were also used.
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