IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Sean O’Riordan
Children adopted from a mother-and-baby home run by the Sacred Heart Sisters in Cork have called for an independent public inquiry to find out how many babies died at the centre and where the bodies are buried.
The adoptees have also called on the Government to provide them with counselling and to support surviving mothers who gave birth at Bessborough House.
The call was made yesterday after members of the Bessborough Mothers and Babies Group gathered at the site in Mahon-Blackrock, commemorating the babies who died there.
BMBG spokeswoman Helen Murphy, who was adopted out of Bessborough in 1963, said the group had no idea how many babies died there, but said the number was higher than the near 800 buried in a mass grave at a similar facility also operated by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam, Co Galway.
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