International experts join mass grave excavation at Tuam mother and baby home

Lists of the names of dead children at the grotto on an unmarked mass grave at the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home (Niall Carson/PA)

An international team of experts have joined Irish specialists ahead of an excavation of a mass grave at the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in the west of Ireland.

Personnel from Colombia, Spain, the UK, Canada and the US have joined the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention (ODAIT) team in Tuam, Co Galway as pre-excavation work continues.