IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Sean O’Riordan
Children adopted from a Sacred Heart Sisters’ mother-and-baby home in Cork have called for an independent public inquiry to find out many babies died at the centre and where on the site they are buried.
They also want the government to immediately provide counselling for themselves, surviving mothers who gave birth at Bessborough and their families.
The call was made yesterday after members of the Bessborough Mothers and Babies Group gathered at the site in Mahon, where they brought flowers, teddy bears and candles to a vigil where they remembered the babies who died there.
Helen Murphy, who was adopted out of Bessborough in 1963, said the group had no idea how many babies died there, but believe the number was higher than the near 800 buried in a mass grave at a home operated by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam, Co Galway.
It is claimed that many of their deaths were due to starvation and neglect.
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