IRELAND
Evening Echo
Jess Casey
THE sale of a site at the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home should be halted until a full examination of the grounds is carried out, according to a Cork woman who spent time in the institution.
Joan McDermott, originally from Mitchelstown, is calling for the sale at Bessborough to be immediately halted after it emerged plans are underway to sell a portion of the site at Blackrock.
Ms McDermott was separated from her son for 50 years after she gave birth to him while she was interned in the mother and baby home as a teenager.
“Us mothers are convinced there are bodies buried there,” Ms McDermott told the Evening Echo.
“There are mothers still alive, who do not know to this day where their babies are. Mothers who don’t know where their babies are buried.
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