For the children of Tuam, and Bessboro, and Castlepollard, and Sean Ross Abbey, and St. Pat’s, the Navan Road, and all related institutions, the State hinders the truth by denying access to information.
If you wanted confirmation that the scandal of the ‘Tuam Babies’ has become an international story, it was very much in evidence at the screenings of a poignant new documentary in New York and Boston last week.
The local Galway historian who was among the first to expose the scandal of the 796 bodies buried at Tuam has said that the church should cover the full cost of the exhumation.
An Irish mother and baby home survivor has told of his lasting heartache at being denied the opportunity by Magdalene Laundry nuns to say his last goodbye his dying mother.
At the age of 3, Colleen Anderson was taken from her mother in Ireland and adopted to a woman in America. Now, she hopes to permanently return and reconnect with her family.
Irish singer, now called Magda Davitt, famously protested against the Catholic Church, on SNL in 1992 and her protest against the “nest of devils” continues.
