IRELAND
BBC News
Irish Minister for Children Charlie Flanagan has announced a statutory Commission of Investigation into mother and baby homes in Ireland.
The cabinet has been discussing the deaths of almost 800 children at a convent-run mother and baby home.
The remains of some children were found in a concrete tank in County Galway.
The grave in Tuam was initially thought to date to the 1850s when discovered 40 years ago. The children, one as old as nine, died between 1925 and 1961.
Ministers have been receiving a progress report from an inter-departmental group, which was set up by the government to examine the matter.
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