Call for mother and baby home inquiry

As the Church plans to discuss erecting a memorial to the 800 babies and children in a mass burial site in Co Galway, the Adoption Rights Alliance has called for a public inquiry into all deaths of babies, children, and mothers at mother-and- baby homes around the country.

Earlier this week a Government minister called for a public inquiry into the events that led to hundreds of children being buried in a former septic tank at a former home for unmarried mothers in Tuam.

Adoption Rights Alliance Co-Founder, Susan Lohan said that the Tuam scandal is not isolated and that mother-and-baby homes in Ireland were known to have high mortality rates.