Irish Examiner View: Bessborough apartments are a morbid prospect

The possibility that the remains of lost infants could be uncovered while building these apartments is horrifying

The graveyard at the Bessborough centre in Blackrock, Cork, formerly Bessborough House Mother and Baby Home. The children born here  were failed utterly by the State during their brief lives; in a very small way it might help to address that failure if they were left in peace now. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

A decision is expected soon on a planning application for 92 apartments proposed for the Bessborough site in Cork.

As reported by this newspaper, the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation reported that between 1922 and 1998, some 923 children died while resident in Bessborough.