Call for mother and baby home inquiry

Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan’s claim that the Government is giving "active consideration" to addressing the growing scandal of the mass child grave discovered at a mother and baby home in Galway has been deemed wholly inadequate by opposition parties.

Mr Flanagan branded the Tuam mother and baby home revelations “deeply disturbing and a shocking reminder of a darker past in Ireland when our children were not cherished as they should have been”.

Galway East Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney called on the Taoiseach to offer an apology on behalf of the nation for what had happened at the Tuam home.