President Higgins: Let commission put truth on the record

The President hopes the commission into mother and baby homes will “put the truth on the record”.

Describing as “horrifying” the revelation of a grave of more than 700 babies in the Tuam home, Michael D Higgins said “so many questions remain” around the treatment if the mothers and infants who were sent to and born in such institutions.

It came shortly before calls to to test another site in Tuam where the Bon Secours nuns, who ran the mother and baby home, ran a hospital. The HSE has been granted planning permission for a development at the old Grove Hospital, but families have claimed their children or siblings were buried there and have called for tests.