Long-awaited exhumation at Tuam: 'I hope we can find all the children'

Anna Corrigan shares a photograph of her mother Bridget holding her as a girl. She believed she was an only child. Picture: Moya Nolan

Tears rolled down Anna Corrigan’s face as she sat alone at her kitchen table while the world learned last week that the long-awaited exhumation of the Tuam babies’ burial site would begin on Monday.

She had been told the information privately early on Wednesday by Daniel MacSweeney of the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam, and had discussed it with her family and the Tuam Babies Family Group, which she set up in 2014.