Elaine Loughlin: Campaign to stop a literal digging up of a painful past

An Bord Pleanála will decide this week whether part of Bessborough land should be turned into housing. How in 2021 is a plan to build on a suspected mass infant burial site even being considered?

Elaine Loughlin: For decades, the infants who perished in mother and baby homes were treated as lesser, now officialdom threatens to dehumanise them yet again.

For decades, the infants who perished in mother and baby homes were treated as lesser, now officialdom threatens to dehumanise them yet again.

There are 900 missing Bessborough babies, infants who in death were denied the dignity of a funeral or a gravestone to mark their short existence.