Cork City Council agrees to protect Bessborough 'children's burial site' from development

Catherine Coffey O'Brien, Maureen Sullivan, Ann O'Gorman, Mary Dunlevy, Maureen Considine, Phil Kinsella and Sheila O'Byrne.

For some, it’s taken more than 50 years to see the site protected, so to have to sit through a five-and-a-half-hour local authority meeting to finally see it happen was worthwhile.

Bessborough campaigners were applauded by Cork’s city councillors on Tuesday after the politicians agreed to afford a level of protection to a sensitive site on the former mother and baby home estate in the new city development plan.