Work to identify buried babies at Tuam mother and baby home could begin by end of year

A plaque at the Bon Secours mother and baby home in Tuam. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Work at the site of the notorious Tuam mother and baby home could begin by the end of the year, as a new Bill to allow the exhumation and identification of bodies at such institutions enters the Dáil.

The Government on Tuesday gave its backing to a long-awaited Bill it promised would deliver “dignity” to children buried at the site of the former mother and baby home.