Taoiseach's apology has no meaning if we're still denied our identity, survivor says 

Children's teddys and toys along with flowers sit at the 'Little Angels' memorial plot in the grounds of Bessborough. File picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

A survivor of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork has said today's apology by the Taoiseach does not have any meaning for survivors of mother and baby homes who are still being denied their identities, stigmatised and “othered’.

Noelle Brown, an artist and adoption rights activist, who was born at the Bessborough home, said survivors had asked for an apology to be delayed so they could digest the “enormous report and the hurt and harm and trauma that it has brought up for survivors”.