Calls to include Protestant orphans in inquiry

Protestant children who were sent to the Westbank orphanage in Greystones, Co Wicklow, were not told that other residents were their brothers or sisters, mainly lived on baby food and were beaten with clothes hangers and electrical cables.

The Westbank overseeing committee members are still refusing to release records to the former residents or to hand them to a state agency.

Former residents from Westbank, along with residents from other Protestant Dublin orphanages and mother and baby homes, including the Bethany Home in Rathgar, the Church of Ireland Magdalen Home (Denny House) on Leeson Street and the Nurse Rescue Society in Templeogue, are all asking that these institutions be included in the upcoming mother and baby homes’ commission of investigation.