NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
Published Tuesday, 17 June 2014
A Belfast woman has told UTV how she has only now discovered that her brother, who was born at a mother and baby home 40 years ago, was buried in an unmarked mass grave at Milltown Cemetery.
Fionnuala McGoldrick was born in Marianville Mother and Baby Home in the south of the city, as was her older brother Paul, after her young unwed mother was sent there.
Paul died in another home from pneumonia seven months after he was born in August 1972.
Fionnuala, who was adopted into a new family, began the search to find her brother four years ago and a fortnight ago she obtained records that confirmed he was buried at the Bog Meadows on the edge of Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast.
The mass grave is believed to be the final resting place for so-called ‘limbo babies’ – unbaptised children denied a Christian burial.
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