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“We were just like machines for them, they definitely dehumanised us.”
An Bord Pleanála said it is “not satisfied that the site was not previously used as, and does not contain, a children’s burial ground”.
The Children’s Committee today discussed legislation that would allow exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby institutions.
Survivors have criticised plans to build apartments at the site of a former mother and baby institution.
The developer has said it is “highly unlikely” the land in question is a burial site, but that this can’t be ruled out.
Survivors of Bessborough mother and baby home have welcomed the news.
A Bessborough survivor has said the revelations are “heartbreaking and shocking”.
The action is understood to be one of the first brought following the publication of the final report by the commission of investigation earlier this month.
The findings were revealed in the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission today.
Roderic O’Gorman has asked planners to read today’s Commision of Investigation’s findings on burials at the former mother and baby home.
The long-awaited report will be published today – and survivors want “urgent” action on foot of it.
Ahead of the commission’s final report being published tomorrow, we’re taking a look back at its interim reports.
The report will be published on the week of 11 January, Minister Roderic O’Gorman has confirmed.
Survivors want Ireland to face up to its past – but there are different views on the best way to do this.
€30 million in State funding has been spent on the site over the last two decades.
A new book seeks to highlight how much this period in Irish history still impacts on people today.
He called on the Church to avoid returning to attitudes it had shown in the past.
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
Bridget said her son’s name was changed from William to Gerard as he would be easier to offload.
Deirdre Wadding says her time in the Cork mother and baby home in 1981 has haunted her ever since.
Some 25,000 files have been handed over by the Sacred Heart Adoption Society to the Cork offices of Government agency ‘TUSLA’.
Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan has encouraged those who wish to make a submission to “act without delay”.
It is believed the trials took place between 1960 to 1976.