Give survivors extra time with Mother and Baby Homes Report, says Tuam historian

The historian has called for more time to be given for survivors with the report. File picture.

Historian Catherine Corless has said the government should delay the publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Report to allow survivors more time to digest the material.

The historian, whose study of the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway, led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, is making the call after a leak to a Sunday newspaper on Sunday.