IRELAND
Irish Independent
Geraldine Gittens
Published 05/06/2014
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny yesterday admitted that more mass baby graves – other than the one found at Tuam, Co Galway – could possibly exist throughout Ireland.
Dublin woman Martina Keogh holds this very suspicion.
Martina was sent to St Joseph’s industrial school in Clifden, Co Galway by the courts, for the crime of stealing an apple and a swimming suit.
She spent almost two years at the school in the 1960s – and during this time she claims that some babies disappeared.
She believes that the case of the Clifden school warrants a full analysis by the Government, in relation to whether babies died while in the care of the Sisters of Mercy and if so, where they were buried.
Martina, from Dublin’s north inner city, entered the home for orphans aged nine.
As one of the older children, she remembers a grim situation where babies were malnourished.
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