Michael Clifford: Hurt caused by Mother and Baby Homes report must be addressed

The problem with the report published last week is that there are large chunks of it with which many people have great difficulty

Something has to be done to address the hurt that the Mother and Baby Homes Report has inflicted – albeit unintentionally - on those who have that lived experience. Picture: Larry Cummins

If the dead could sue, Peggy McCarthy would have an airtight case against the Mother and Baby Homes Commission. 

Peggy died in childbirth in 1946, on the road between Tralee and Killarney. She was 25 years of age and had been refused entry to hospital to give birth in Listowel and then Tralee.