Tuam babies scandal: This is body identification at ‘an industrial level’

“Uncharted waters” is how one senior garda described the situation facing the authorities in responding to Tuam.

Other Garda and forensic experts agree: They are not aware of previous cases involving the possible exhumation, assembly, and examination of an enormous amount of human remains.

One forensic expert told the Irish Examiner that the State has dealt with mass death situations before but not historic ones.