IRELAND
RTE News
Survivors of Protestant residential institutions have urged the Mother and Baby Home Commission to ask the Government to include a Cork rescue home in its terms of reference.
The survivors have also asked the Commission’s chairperson, Judge Yvonne Murphy, to clarify why the majority of former residents of the Westbank Home in Co Wicklow are excluded from the investigation despite indications to the contrary from Tánaiste Joan Burton.
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes between 1922 and 1998 was established last February following an outcry over the treatment – including the burial – of residents in an institution in Tuam, Co Galway which closed in the 1960s.
In a letter to Judge Murphy, Griffith College academic Niall Meehan highlights the exclusion of the now defunct Braemar Rescue Home for Protestant Girls in Cork City from the Commission’s terms of reference.
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