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Fri, 23 Apr, 2021 - 10:29 People will talk about what the board did here for years to come : Survivors call for Bessborough plans to be rejected
Computer-generated image of the proposed residential developments, including the Strategic Housing Development Gateway View, which have been earmarked for a parcel of land on the former Bessborough estate in Cork.
Amy Nolan
SURVIVORS have implored An Bord Pleanála to reject plans seeking to develop apartments and a creche on a former mother and baby home estate in Cork.
In November last year, MWB Two Ltd lodged a planning application with the planning board for 179-apartments in three blocks, as well as a creche, on privately owned land on the former Bessborough estate.
Survivors group against excavating site at Bessborough, Committee hears
A barrister representing the Cork Survivors and Supporters Association told an Oireachtas committee that it views any excavation of the site where members believe the graves are as ‘desecrating the last burial place of the children, a place where they have rested together for 40, 50, and 60 years’. Pic Larry Cummins
Ann Murphy
A BARRISTER representing survivors of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home has told an Oireachtas committee that excavating children’s graves at the site would be desecrating their burial place.
David Dodd was speaking on behalf of the Cork Survivors and Supporters Association (CSSA) at a hearing of the joint committee on children, disability, equality and integration on the Institutional Burials Bill.
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