Dublin Correspondent
Dublin City Council has become the latest local authority to apologise for its role in the operation of mother-and-baby homes.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu offered her apologies on behalf of Dublin City Council for the running of St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home on the Navan Road.
She said the home had been set up before independence but it had been continued and the women there had been abandoned.
Ms Chu added that they had been forced to give up their children.
Earlier today Mayo County Council apologised for its role in the operation of mother-and-baby homes.