Nuns 'gift' Bessborough to the State amid renewed calls to identify children's burial site

Vital family support services based at the Bessborough campus in Cork have been saved following confirmation that a religious order plans to “gift” the buildings to the State.

But it has prompted renewed calls from Mother and Baby Homes campaigners for the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary to do more to identify the potential burial site of an estimated 840 children who died in Bessborough while the care of the order.