Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate Three-quarters of all children born in or admitted to Bessborough in 1943 died in infancy
Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 15:00
The huge report, which runs to some 3,000 pages, is a scathing indictment of the institutions it examined. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says its findings have revealed a dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history . Video: Pool/PA The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Nine thousand children died in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes between 1922 and 1998, including three-quarters of all the children born, or admitted to one home in one year during the second World War.