Family welcomes boost to bid for inquest into boy's death at Cork mother and baby home

'It doesn’t mean they have granted us an inquest, but it does mean the case will be reviewed entirely again.'

'It does mean we are back to square one, but we are very happy as the case is moving forward now.' Carmel Cantwell with a candle for her late brother William Gerald Walsh at the annual Bessborough commemoration in the Bessborough Centre, Blackrock, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The family of a baby boy who died in Bessborough mother and baby home has welcomed a breakthrough in their campaign to have an inquest held into his death.

William Walsh was six weeks old when he died at St Finbarr’s hospital on December 2, 1960. His cause of death was given as “renal abscess septicaemia”.