Shocking legacy of Kilkenny County Home - Mother and Baby Home Commission Report
Poor conditions and high infant mortality in Thomastown facility revealed
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Shocking details of ‘a shameful chapter’ of Irish history reveal 177 babies died in just 38 years at the Kilkenny County Home.
Their individual graves are unmarked and many institutional records have been destroyed. It has also been revealed that many Kilkenny mothers were sent to the now infamous Bessborough home in Cork and Sean Ross Abbey in Tipperary, from the County Home.
The heartbreaking figures reflecting the stories of mothers and their babies have been set out in the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, published on Tuesday.
Kilkenny TD criticises leaks of Mother and Baby Homes report Appalling and insensitive says Sinn Fein TD Kathleen Funchion
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Sinn Féin spokesperson on Children Kathleen Funchion has described as ‘appalling and insensitive’ leaks from the Mother and Baby Homes report prior to survivors receiving the document.
Information from the report, which is due to be given to survivors on Tuesday, was leaked to a media outlet despite Government promises to ensure survivors would be given advanced sight of the report.
“I am absolutely appalled that key elements of the Mother and Baby Homes report have been leaked to the media today, before survivors and their families have seen the report, said Deputy Funchion.