Will there be peace for mothers, babies cast aside?

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Our Western Correspondent Pat McGrath reflects on ongoing efforts to secure a final resting place for the hundreds of infants buried at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam

Little trinkets, fleeting sentences and small recollections can sum up the magnitude of unimaginable loss, heartbreak and betrayal.

First, a paragraph from the report into the initial site investigations at Tuam, in 2016 and 2017:"This is not a recognised formal burial situation. The structural evidence here implies that a sewage treatment facility was reused for the interment of juvenile human remains." And what about the children who drank from the rusted enamel mugs that were also uncovered by forensic archaeologists? Did they recite the poem and memorise the image of Mary and her little lamb, as they sipped their milk? Did they have a carefree childhood, like millions of others who learned the same lines, or had their little minds a sense of what was different for them? And how many are still there, under the ground in Tuam, almost a century after the home first...

Survivors and the relatives of those who lived, worked and died in the Tuam mother-and-baby home are hoping that the exhumation of human remains there will finally get under way in 2023. Many survivors and campaigners say that their sole focus is on ensuring the infants placed in underground chambers are given a proper burial and that, where possible, remains are returned to families or descendants.

Applications for the position of director closed in mid-December and it is anticipated the role will be filled early in the new year. The appointee is to be charged with providing regular updates to relatives and the wider public.

 

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RTEfakenews can't give it a rest for Christmas

Fix up the crypt they were in and sort out the sewer leak from the housing estate next door

They are dead. They are already at peace.

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