In his State apology, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission gave survivors what they have been denied for so long: "their voice, their individuality, their right to be acknowledged".

In reality, the voices of those who were silenced for decades, and indeed generations, have yet again been scrubbed.

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