Inquiry urged into Cork deaths

Children adopted from a Sacred Heart Sisters’ mother-and-baby home in Cork have called for an independent public inquiry to find out many babies died at the centre and where on the site they are buried.

They also want the government to immediately provide counselling for themselves, surviving mothers who gave birth at Bessborough and their families.

The call was made yesterday after members of the Bessborough Mothers and Babies Group gathered at the site in Mahon, where they brought flowers, teddy bears and candles to a vigil where they remembered the babies who died there.