Nearly €260k spent on Tuam babies site preparatory work 

Daniel MacSweeney, the director of the Tuam excavation. Picture: Moya Nolan

Nearly €260,000 has been spent to date on preparation work for the exhumation of the remains of 796 babies buried in Tuam, a new report has revealed.

The children died between 1925 and 1961 in appalling conditions and were buried in a septic tank on the grounds of the former Bons Secours-run institution in Co Galway.