Tuam mother and baby home advisory board to visit burial site next week

The group is advising the Director of the Intervention of the Tuam babies mass grave, Daniel MacSweeney, who will oversee the excavation. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

Members of the Tuam Advisory Board will travel to the site of the mass grave where 796 children are believed to have been buried at a former mother and baby home in Galway for the first time.

The committee, which consists of six people, including Dublin District Coroner Dr Brian Farrell, will attend the burial area on Wednesday to meet the team of engineers involved in the exhumation.