Taoiseach to deliver apology for mother and baby homes

Ireland’s Taoiseach will deliver an apology to survivors of homes for unmarried mothers and their children (Niall Carson/PA)

The Taoiseach will apologise to survivors of homes for unmarried mothers and their children later.

The institutions for those who fell pregnant out of wedlock produced high levels of infant mortality, misogyny and stigmatisation of some of society’s most vulnerable, an independent report said.