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 Irish Examiner 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.