Campaigners have called for vaccine trials to be included in the upcoming mother and baby home inquiry, after it emerged a previously unknown fifth trial was carried out on children here in the 1960s.

A previously unknown fifth vaccine trial was carried out by Glaxo Laboratories on more than 30 young children here in the 1960s.

The urgent need for greater openness and accountability in the murky world of vaccine trials is borne out by today’s front page report showing the public was kept in the dark about a previously unknown trial carried out on Irish children during the 1960s.