Mother and Baby Homes Commission to start ​​geophysical survey of Sean Ross Abbey home's ​burial grounds

Children's ​Minister ​Katherine Zappone ​confirmed the plans after the Cabinet granted a one-year extension to the Commission to publish its final report - which will now be due in February 2020.

The ​​Mother and Baby Homes Commission is to begin a ​​geophysical survey at the site of the former Sean Ross Abbey Mother and Baby Home in Tipperary.

It comes over three years after the first geophysical survey was conducted at the Tuam site and some four years after the Commission was established in February 2015.