Bessborough survivor aims to have parts of the mother and baby homes report quashed

High Court has granted the woman permission to bring the action against the children's minister, the Government, and the State

72-year-old Mary Harney claims that, although she is not named in the mother and baby homes report, she is readily identifiable as a person born in the Bessborough home in Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

A woman has been given permission by the High Court to bring an action aimed at quashing certain parts of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation.

Mary Harney, aged 72, claims her statutory rights were breached by alleged failure to be given an opportunity to make submissions on the commission’s draft report before the final report was published.