Department establishes office to oversee Tuam Mother and Baby home excavation

The 796 Tuam babies’ names were uncovered by historian Catherine Corless and exposed in May 2014. File photo: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

The Department of Children has confirmed that the Office of Director of Authorised Intervention which will oversee the excavation of the mass children’s grave in Tuam, has now been “established in law”.

It comes after repeated calls from the families of the children who died there, to exhume their remains from the septic tank where they are buried.