IRELAND
RTE News
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has called for an independent commission of investigation with judicial powers into all mother-and-baby homes.
His comments come after reports of a mass grave of infants and children found in the grounds of a convent run by the Bon Secours order of nuns in Tuam, Co Galway.
The home operated from the 1920s to the 1960s.
The Government has established an initial inquiry, the results of which will determine the nature of a more thorough investigation.
In an interview with RTÉ’s This Week, the Archbishop said the issue of adoption should also be included in any inquiry.
Any investigation should be independent of Church and State, he said.
He said: “The indications are that if something happened in Tuam it probably happened in other mother-and-baby homes around the country.
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