Michael Moynihan: Do we care enough to stop flats being built on Bessborough babies' remains?

Michael Moynihan contrasts the respect for the children and babies buried at Bessborough to that of the human remains found during building work five years ago elsewhere in Cork

Part of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home annual summer commemoration at the Folly in the former institution in Blackrock, Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan

An important date is looming ever closer, one which is of particular significance to people in Cork but which should also resonate around the country.

I refer to July 9, when a decision is due from An Coimisiún Pleanála on two appeals against the planning permission granted to build apartments on the site of Bessborough in Blackrock, which was once a mother and baby institution.