Irish Examiner view: Ireland's mother and baby homes — a tragedy we cannot forget
A search which began last July has so far discovered the remains of 99 infants at the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. Picture: The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention Tuam (ODAIT)/PA
The recovery of further infant remains from the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam is not the end of a story.
It is another chapter in one of the darkest and most painful episodes in modern Irish history. The temptation with events such as these is to view them as archaeology — as the careful excavation of a tragic past that becomes more distant with every passing year.
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