IRELAND
Irish Times
Tim O’Brien, Elaine Edwards
Sun, Jun 8, 2014
The Catholic archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has called for a properly constituted commission to examine issues raised by the discovery of a mass babies’ grave in Tuam, Co Galway – including the allegation that medical trials were carried out on children.
Archbishop Martin also said the commission should investigate whether similar burials took place at other mother and baby homes throughout the State.
He suggested the commission be independent of the Catholic Church and State agencies with a chairman possibly taken from the judicial profession. He suggested membership should include people such as Ian Elliott former chief executive officer of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Gardaí have begun to examine the circumstances around the discovery of a large quantity of human remains at a site in Tuam, Co Galway beside a former mother-and-baby home run by the Bon Secours order between the 1920s and the 1960s.
Archbishop Martin said the indications were that “if something happened in Tuam it probably happened in other mother and baby homes around the country”.
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