Calls on Taoiseach to block apartment plan for Bessborough site

Over 240 residential units are proposed for the Cork mother and baby home site

Computer-generated image of the proposed residential development earmarked for land on the former Bessborough estate in Cork.

Calls have been made on the Taoiseach to directly intervene to stop a development on the Bessborough mother and baby home site in Cork.

Campaigners have expressed outrage over plans to build 246 apartments on land they believe overlaps a children’s burial site linked to a former mother and baby home.