SPECIAL REPORT: Nuns told don’t co-operate as Bishop tried to thwart probes into Bessborough scandal

As Bessborough was investigated, the nuns were told don’t co-operate, writes Conall Ó Fatharta

MONTH after month, year after year we peel away another layer of the sordid history of Ireland’s mother and baby homes.

In a country where falling pregnant outside marriage was viewed as something worse than a crime, thousands of women and girls were instead hidden away and their children taken from them.