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Geraldine was born in St Patrick s, her sister Pauline was born in Bessborough - 50 years later they found each other
Four years ago a social worker “stumbled across” information that would change their lives forever. By Órla Ryan Sunday 2 May 2021, 12:05 AM May 2nd 2021, 12:05 AM 51,448 Views 0 Comments
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MANY FAMILIES AROUND Ireland have been impacted, or split apart, by the Mother and Baby Home system – whether they realise it or not.
Tens of thousands of women and girls who became pregnant outside marriage, and their children, passed through these institutions throughout the 20th century.tells
Some of the women who gave birth in the system have told their family and friends about their experience, while others have kept it a secret.
By Michelle Devane, PA
More women will die without knowing whether their child is “rotting in the ground or in a septic tank” unless legislation is passed to allow the excavation of unmarked graves in all Irish institutions, a survivor of one mother and baby home has said.
Alice Coughlan, a survivor of the Bessborough institution, described the Government’s Burials Bill as “divisive” and said she does not support it wholeheartedly, but that it needs to be passed so there can be “no more delays”.
Ms Coughlan, who is a member of the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Institutions, made the comments at the Children’s Committee, which met to discuss the Bill which would allow the exhumation and reburial of bodies at mother and baby institutions.
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