Historians seek new survivor-centred Mother and Baby Homes Commission 

Mother and Baby home survivor Shelia O'Byrne stands beside the Virgin Mary shrine at the Tuam Mother and Baby home mass burial site in August 2019. File picture: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Leading historians have backed survivors in rejecting the Mother and Baby Homes Commission report, which they say cannot stand.

The calls come following the admission of a commission member that the testimony of 550 survivors was discounted as the inquiry believed it did not meet the "robust legal standards of evidence" needed to be included in the main report.