'Profound generational wrong': Taoiseach issues apology to Mother and Baby Home survivors

Shoes left at a Mother and Baby Home protest event in Dublin. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ie

The Taoiseach says the shame of those kept in Mother and Baby Homes was not theirs - "it was our shame,"

Micheál Martin said the Mother and Baby Home report was "the duty of a republic to be willing to hold itself to account", as he made a full apology to survivors of the institutions from the Dáil on Wednesday and said the homes were "a profound failure of empathy, understanding and basic humanity".