<strong>The long read:</strong> Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them?
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Anne Kelly Silke, a survivor of the Mother and Baby convent home in Tuam where 978 children died and were mostly buried in a decommissioned sewage tank, has told how she was treated as a slave when fostered to the home of a founding member of Fianna Fáil.
Silke claimed in a documentary, Untold Secrets, screened last Sunday at the Galway Film Fleadh, that she suffered severe physical and sexual abuse while living in the home of her foster parent.
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The documentary features testimony that the foster father was Mark Killilea Sr., a TD who was a father of six. He died in 1970.Â
9,000 children died in Irish homes for unwed mothers over nearly 80 years, report finds Yuliya Talmazan and Adela Suliman and Helena Skinner
Some 9,000 children died in Ireland s church-run homes for unwed mothers, a government report published on Tuesday has found. This is equivalent to 15 percent of all children who were born or lived in the 18 institutions investigated over nearly 80 years.
The nearly 3,000-page report describes the emotional and even physical abuse some of the 56,000 unmarried mothers from farmhands to domestic servants were subjected to in the so-called mother-and-baby homes. It appears that there was little kindness shown to them and this was particularly the case when they were giving birth, the report said.
More than one in 10 children admitted to mother and baby homes died, report finds The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, which was a mother and baby home operated by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary from 1930 to 1970 Michael McHugh, Press Association 12 January, 2021 17:15
More than one in 10 children admitted to the Republic of Ireland s mother and baby homes died, a report has said.
The major causes of death were respiratory infections and gastroenteritis, an independent commission which investigated the appalling toll said.
It added: The absence of professional staff, combined with what must be acknowledged as a general indifference to the fate of the children who were born in mother and baby homes, contributed to the appalling levels of infant mortality.