Mayor of County Cork apologises over Bessborough Mother and Baby Home Linehan Foley says ‘sorry to the mothers and babies who suffered and continue to suffer’
Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 11:52 Updated: Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 12:11
The Mayor of Cork County, a survivor of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, has apologised on behalf of Cork County Council for failing to ensure that women who had their babies there were properly cared for.
CllrMary Linehan Foley, who was born in Bessborough in Cork city in 1966 and later adopted by a family in Youghal, on Friday issued the apology on behalf of Cork County Council as Bessborough was within the county’s jurisdiction for many of its years of operation, from 1922 to 1998.