Tuam babies' burial site to be sealed off as mass grave exhumation begins in June

This is the site of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, County Galway. File picture: Padraig O'Reilly

The entire burial site of the Tuam babies will be forensically sealed off and monitored around the clock, as specialist teams prepare for Ireland’s first exhumation of a mass grave next month.

In an email sent Friday evening to the Tuam Babies Family Group, which includes many relatives of those buried at the site, the Director of the Intervention said his team is “still on track to begin the excavation of the site in the second half of June” — although a start date has not yet been confirmed.