IRELAND
Irish Independent
Eilish O’Regan and Cormac McQuinn
March 9 2017
Catholic Bishops have called for burial sites near Mother and Baby homes to be properly marked to allow the dead and their families be recognised with dignity and not forgotten.
The call, made at the Spring General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, puts more pressure on the investigating commission to carry out test excavations to ensure the remains of more dead babies, as discovered near the Tuam home, are properly respected.
The concern is that marked burial sites near the homes are not the only grounds where babies were placed many decades ago.
The bishops said the appalling story of life, death and adoptions related to the Mother and Baby Homes has shocked everyone in Ireland and beyond.
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