'I just cried and cried': Sister of Bessborough baby learns of brother's burial site in report

The sister of a baby boy who died in Bessborough only found out that he was buried in a former famine grave via the Commission's burials report.

'I just cried and cried': Sister of Bessborough baby learns of brother's burial site in report

The sister of a baby boy who died in Bessborough only found out that he was buried in a former famine grave via the Commission's burials report.

Carmel Cantwell's brother, William, was just six weeks old in December 1960 when he died at in St Finbarr's Hospital in Cork after having been born in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home.

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