Exhumation of babies at Tuam mother and baby home to begin in February 2025
In 2014, it emerged that the deceased children, who were incarcerated with their mothers — most of whom were unmarried — at the Bons Secours run institution, died in appalling circumstances during its operation from 1925 to 1961. File photo: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie
The long-awaited exhumation at the Tuam mother and baby home where 796 babies are believed to be buried is set to begin in February 2025, the has learned.
The go-ahead to start the process at the controversial burial site has been confirmed by the Director of the Intervention at the Galway site, Daniel MacSweeney.
