Tuam and Bessborough: Houses of horror

The Tuam mother and baby home should not be treated as an individual scandal, but as part of a national trafficking network that commodified people, says Conall Ó Fátharta.

“This may prove to be a scandal that dwarfs other, more recent issues with the Church and State...”

There’s that word, “scandal”, again. As a nation, we don’t tire of hearing it.