IRELAND
Irish Post
By Erica Doyle Higgins
A SPECIALIST team will be brought in to perform DNA analysis on the remains found in the mass grave at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.
The bodies of 796 young children and babies were found in 2012 on the old grounds of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby home in Tuam, Co. Galway.
The home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters on behalf of Galway County Council from 1925 to 1961. To date, three excavations have taken place on the site but no exhumations have been performed.
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone made the announcement of the appointment in Dáil Éireann.
“While the Commission has concluded its excavations in Tuam, it has not yet reached any formal conclusions about the burials,” she said.
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