Bessborough mum: Apartment project is an 'abhorrent act of desecration'

Several people with deep personal connections to Bessborough in Cork made powerful and emotional contributions at the online hearing

Plans to build on former Bessborough land would be 'an abhorrent act of desecration' to the memories of the hundreds of babies who died there, the oral hearing was told. Picture: Denis Scannell

A mother who "lost her son to adoption" has branded plans to build on former Bessborough land “an abhorrent act of desecration” to the memories of the hundreds of babies who died there.

Mary Slattery, who told today’s oral hearing that she “lost her firstborn to adoption” in 1979, said: “We don’t want their resting places disturbed or developed.”