Survivor calls for inquests into Sean Ross Abbey baby deaths 

Maureen Sullivan said: 'I am calling on the Government to find these children, and to give them an individual inquest'

Maureen Sullivan in the 2022 documentary, 'Ireland's Dirty Laundry'. On Saturday, Ms Sullivan launched her autobiography, 'Girl In The Tunnel'. Picture: RTÉ

A campaigner on institutional abuse has called on the Government to locate the bodies of babies who died in the Sean Ross Abbey mother and baby institution, and to carry out inquests to determine how they died.

At the age of 12, Maureen Sullivan was one of the youngest children ever to be incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry. A victim of child sexual abuse, she was locked up in the laundry in New Ross in Co Wexford before being transferred to another laundry in Athy, Co Kildare, and then to the school for the blind in Dublin.