Breeda Murphy, PRO of the The Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance and adoptee and activist Eunan Duffy on the release of a report looking at Northern Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes, launched last week by, top from left: Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill, retired senior police officer Judith Gillespie, who led the review and First Minister Arlene Foster…
…and the similarities with Dublin in denying and delaying justice for survivors.
This is the seventh in a series of shows with Eunan and Breeda dealing with Mother and Baby Homes across the island of Ireland and the issues facing birth mothers and adoptees. All are available on our YouTube channel.
Yesterday: The Survivors Of Northern Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes
Pic: BBC
Meanwhile…
Mayo County Council has become the latest local authority to apologise for its role in the operation of mother-and-baby homes.
Almost a third of all mothers admitted to the mother-and-baby home in Tuam, between 1925 and 1961, were from Co Mayo.
Capitation payments were made by the council to the Bon Secours Sisters, for the women and children sent from the county to the Tuam home, over that 36-year period.
A special meeting of the council is being held virtually this afternoon, following the publication of the final report of the Commission of Investigation last month.
Mayo County Council apologises over mother-and-baby homes (RTÉ)
