Irish Examiner view: Such a deaf ear on Mother and Baby homes

Irish Examiner view: Such a deaf ear on Mother and Baby homes

Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration Roderic O'Gorman will bring a memo to today's Cabinet meeting outlining the next steps in the Mother and Baby Commission's reporting.

Resignations from the Green Party over mother and baby home records reignited the debate about staying inside the tent to pursue change or stepping outside it when change is blocked. 

In contrast, it is certain that an old-school rump of Fianna Fáil politicians didn’t even look to find the tent’s door when the widespread opposition to sweeping those records under the carpet for another 30 years dominated their incoming emails.

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