Number of children sent overseas for adoptions even higher than previously thought

 A pair of baby shoes with a massage hanging at the walls of the Mother and Baby home burial site in Tuam, Co. Galway. Picture: Hany Marzouk

Hundreds of additional children may have been sent overseas for adoption than originally thought.

Evidence that at least 356 previously unknown Irish children were sent to Northern Ireland, Great Britain and a range of other countries for adoption was given to the Department of Health over 20 years ago but never made public.