Disposal of babies' bodies in Tuam 'as bad as Nazi Germany': Fr Brian Darcy

Well-known cleric Fr Brian Darcy has said the

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discovery of almost 800 babies' bodies next to a Galway mother-and-baby home is as bad as anything that happened in Nazi Germany.

Well-known cleric Fr Brian Darcy has said the

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The Government has today confirmed that a "scoping exercise" is underway to determine whether other mass graves such as that found in Tuam exist in other parts of the country.

Fr Brian Darcy said he thought previous scandals involving the Church had left him "unshockable", but that this was a shocking as something that happened in Germany during World War II.

He added that people needed to be brought to justice for "sinful crimes".

"I think if the facts are as bad as they seem to be, and I have no reason to doubt that, I think this will cause a massive revolution about the kind of country that we had and the kind of country that we're all children of."