Irish Examiner view: Let us now give Tuam babies the dignity we denied them in life
Tuam mother and baby home survivor Peter Mulryan with Selina Brogan from the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, at the burial site prior to the exhumation which is being carried out to identify the remains of infants who died at the home between 1925 and 1961. Picture: Andrew Downes/ODAIT/PA
With the preparatory work for the exhumation of 796 infant bodies from the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam underway, the hopes for closure for so many families has redoubled.
The hope too is that this country as a whole can put behind it a dark chapter whereby the nearly 800 dead babies were buried — some in a disused sceptic tank — without any burial records being kept.
