Mother and baby home campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on nuns passes away

Rosie McKinney, 86, passed away peacefully, said her daughter Mags. Picture: Finbarr O'Rourke

An 86-year-old campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on the nuns and gardaí when they tried to take her back to a mother and baby home after she escaped, has passed away.

Rosie McKinney (nee Furey) revealed in the Irish Examiner last year how she was one of the youngest women to enter the Tuam mother and baby home when she was just 15 years old.