‘When they took away my baby, they took away my life’

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

The adoptees have also called on the Government to provide them with counselling and to support surviving mothers who gave birth at Bessborough House.

The call was made yesterday after members of the Bessborough Mothers and Babies Group gathered at the site in Mahon-Blackrock, commemorating the babies who died there.