Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has said she is in favour of all mother and baby home sites being exhumed after giving the green light for the Tuam facility to be excavated.

A new search for the remains of a teenager kidnapped and murdered by the IRA nearly 40 years ago has been called off.

Hollywood star Liam Neeson said today the families of the so-called Disappeared were living in a cruel and inhumane limbo.