Gareth O'Callaghan: Tell us what’s going on at Bessborough — we have a right to know
The site of the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork. Identifying baby burial sites should be a priority, the taoiseach said four years ago. So why hasn’t he made it his priority?
“It is important to say you were in this world, you mattered, you were something, you were a human being.”
These are the words of historian Catherine Corless, the tireless investigator who uncovered the shocking truth involving the deaths of 796 babies and children at the Bons Secour Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway, since it opened 100 years ago. On average, a child died every two weeks between 1925 and 1961 — when the home closed.
