Tuam survivor launches campaign to buy home in case missing son returns

Christina 'Chrissy' Tully: 'He won’t know that I never married and that I never go to sleep at night without saying the rosary for him in this house and he never left my thoughts.' Photo: Gofundme

A 94-year-old survivor of the Tuam mother and baby home has launched a fundraising campaign to buy her council house in Galway, in case her missing son returns to find her after she dies.

Christina “Chrissie” Tully was just 18 years old when she gave birth to a baby boy on December 13, 1949, while she was in the care of the Bons Secours nuns as an unmarried mother.