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O Gorman stresses GSK s moral obligation over vaccine trials as company refuses to pay compensation
Representatives from the pharmaceutical giant are set to meet with Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman today. By Órla Ryan Wednesday 28 Apr 2021, 6:00 AM 1 hour ago 6,746 Views 0 Comments
Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, pictured in January.
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Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, pictured in January.
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MINISTER FOR CHILDREN Roderic O’Gorman is due to meet representatives of pharmaceutical giant GSK today to discuss vaccine trials that were carried out in Mother and Baby Homes and similar institutions.
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It’s claimed a new bill which would allow for the exhumation of remains at mother and baby homes could damage survivors’ chances of finding out what happened to their loved ones.
That’s according to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties who were before the Oireachtas Children’s Committee yesterday on the Institutional Burials Bill.
PRO of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance Breeda Murphy says the legislation would have a bearing on homes across the country including Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea.
“What we have to remember is that for Sean Ross Abbey in Tipperary 6,414 women were admitted and 6,079 children were there and 1,024 children died.”
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – An Oireachtas Committee has heard that it may not be possible to identify all those buried at the site of the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
Dr Niamh McCullagh – who led the forensic investigation team at Tuam, Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey – says identification at Tuam will be particularly difficult.
She said due to the nature of the burials, many bones will have separated and mixed making individualisation, and subsequent identification, particularly difficult.
She warned it cannot be assumed that all of the individuals buried will be identified, whether through DNA or other identification processes.
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Philomena Lee claims sections of the report do not accurately reflect her evidence to the commission
Retired nurse Philomena Lee, whose life was the subject of a book later made into a film, has brought a High Court challenge aimed at quashing parts of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
Ms Lee, who is 88 and living in England, claims sections of the report do not accurately reflect her evidence to the commission.
She became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to the Sean Ross Abbey mother-and-baby home in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. Her son was sent for adoption by a US couple, when he was three years old.