Former Bessborough resident to sue State, HSE, and nuns

The folly at Bessborough: A former resident of the mother and baby home has initiated a damages action against the State, the HSE and the order of Catholic nuns who ran that facility. Picture: Larry Cummins

A former resident of a Cork mother and baby home has initiated a High Court damages action against the State, the HSE and the order of Catholic nuns who ran that facility.

The action has been brought by Caroline Donovan who was a resident of Bessborough House, in Cork on two occasions, once in the mid-1980s and also for a period during the early 1990s.