Dublin Correspondent
Dublin City Council has become the latest local authority to apologise for its role in the operation of mother-and-baby homes.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu offered her apologies on behalf of Dublin City Council for the running of St Patrick s Mother and Baby Home on the Navan Road.
She said the home had been set up before independence but it had been continued and the women there had been abandoned.
Ms Chu added that they had been forced to give up their children.
Earlier today Mayo County Council apologised for its role in the operation of mother-and-baby homes.
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IN the late 1960s a child arrived at Pelletstown mother and baby home in Navan Road, Dublin, on the recommendation of a paediatrician. The child had been placed for adoption but was being returned . A note said the child s adoptive mother was reluctant to keep baby. she considers him retarded. Admit to St Patrick s Home .
Two years later the child was declared of average intelligence and well suited to adoption or boarding . A letter from a Pelletstown medical officer to the Adoption Board said his initial backwardness was due to environmental conditions .
The final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes documents the shameful treatment of mothers and their children born out of wedlock.