IRELAND
Irish Independent
Caroline Crawford and Tom Brady
GARDAI are preparing an initial dossier for Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald on reports of an unmarked grave at a former Catholic Church-run home where almost 800 children died.
But it is not clear when they will be in a position to determine if a criminal investigation is warranted.
Two local senior officers, Chief Supt Tom Curley and Supt Patrick McHugh, visited the site in Tuam, Co Galway, yesterday along with 51-year-old Frannie Hopkins, who found what he believed to have been a mass grave there when he was 12 years old.
Separately yesterday, President Michael D Higgins said he was “appalled” at the terrible reports that have been appearing, in particular in relation to the high death rates in Tuam.
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