Names of Bessborough children read aloud as campaigners vow to fight on against development plan

The minute’s silence outside the gates of Bessborough was broken only by birdsong and the shrieks and shouts of children playing in nearby housing estates.

A reading aloud of almost 900 of the names of children who died there or after discharge from the former mother and baby institution in Cork had taken a full 50 minutes.

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