IRELAND
RTE News
There have been increasing calls for an inquiry into the discovery of an unmarked mass grave at a former Catholic Church-run home in Tuam, Co Galway, where almost 800 children died between 1925 and 1961.
The grave was discovered in the former grounds of one of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes run by the Bon Secours order of nuns.
Researcher Catherine Corless said the bodies were buried in a sewage tank on the grounds.
Ms Corless said public records show that 796 children died at the home before its closure just over 50 years ago.
She told RTÉ that some of the dead were as young as three months old.
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