IRELAND
UTV
A remembrance service has taken place outside Government buildings for babies who died at a mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.
A moving 800 seconds of silence was held at 12pm for some 800 babies who died at St Mary’s between 1925 and 1961 – one year on from the discovery of a mass grave which shocked the world.
The ceremony is organised by a coalition of mother and baby home survivors:
* The Bethany Home Survivors
* Adopted Illegally Ireland
* Beyond Adoption Ireland
* Castlepollard Mother & Baby home group
* Adoption Rights Now
Terri Harrison, from the ‘Mother to Mother Dublin’ group has called for the transparency in investigations into the homes.
She said: “As life givers in Ireland, we were cast aside, denied our basic human rights. Our loss hidden, our truth never told, our lives lived beneath a veil of deceit.
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