IRELAND
Sunday World
By Karl Doyle
Sunday World columnist, Fr Brian D’Arcy, has reacted with shock and disbelief to the discovery of the bodies of almost 800 babies near a ‘mother and baby’ home in Tuam, Co Galway.
Speaking on Newstalk’s Lunchtime programme, the curate told interviewer John Keogh that the grim find was akin to something that would have happened in Nazi Germany during WWII.
He has also demanded that those responsible should be brought to justice for what he called “an atrocity”.
Speaking about his outrage on hearing of the mass grave, he told the programme: “When I heard it first I began to think that this was some atrocity that had happened in a foreign country – the remnants of a famine in some other country, or a bad regime, because that’s what it sounded like to me.
“It’s just a dreadful, horrible thing. I simply couldn’t believe it was in my own lifetime and in the same religion to which I belonged to and have professed to all my life.
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