Nuns accept failure to respect dignity of women and children in Mother and Baby Homes

Catherine Corless, pictured beside a grotto in the grounds of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

"We did not live up to our Christianity when running the home and failed to respect the inherent dignity of the women and children who came to the home."

These are the words of the nuns who ran St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam in an apology released in the aftermath of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report.