Thousands of infants died in Irish homes for unmarried mothers and their offspring mostly run by the Catholic Church from the 1920s to the 1990s, an inquiry found on Tuesday, an "appalling" mortality rate that reflected brutal living conditions.
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Search By Live95 News Team Getty Images A woman with connections to Limerick, who’s been personally touched by Mother and Baby Homes, says an apology from the Taoiseach won’t make a difference to the many lives that have already been damaged.
The final report of the Commission into these institutions has been released to the public this afternoon following a five year investigation.
Anna Corrigan, whose father was sent to Glin Industrial School in Limerick, has been looking for answers surrounding her two missing brothers born in the Tuam Mother and Baby home since 2012.
She says she wants to see meaningful action taken by the government now rather than the promised apology by the Taoiseach tomorrow.
Irish report finds appalling death rates in homes run for children born out of wedlock
12 Jan, 2021 08:50 PM
3 minutes to read Tuam Mother and Baby home survivor Theresa O Sullivan poses for a photograph as a vigil is held at the Tuam Mother and Baby home mass burial site on August 25, 2019. Photo / Getty Tuam Mother and Baby home survivor Theresa O Sullivan poses for a photograph as a vigil is held at the Tuam Mother and Baby home mass burial site on August 25, 2019. Photo / Getty
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Colin Freeman
Ireland confronted one of the darkest chapters of its past yesterday with the publication of a report detailing how 9000 children died in state-run homes for youngsters born out of wedlock.
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Nine thousand children died at the homes between 1922 and 1998, during which time 56,000 unmarried mothers and 57,000 children passed through the Irish Mother and Baby Homes.