Mother and baby home redress scheme: It's time for religious orders to pay up

Norma Foley has asked the religious bodies refusing to pay towards the State's redress scheme to 'do the right thing'. Survivors of mother and baby homes and their families won't be holding their breath, writes Susan O'Shea 

An ageing memorial at the Bessborough ‘Mother and Child’ Home Cemetery in Cork

'I understand that you may feel upset by today's announcement'.

Dead right, Norma Foley. Survivors of mother and baby homes are upset — or downright furious to put it better — by the news that just two out of eight religious bodies are willing to make a financial contribution to the mother and baby homes redress scheme.