Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate
Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate Three-quarters of all children born in or admitted to Bessborough in 1943 died in infancy Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 15:00 The huge report, which runs to some 3,000 pages, is a scathing indictment of the institutions it examined. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says its findings have revealed a "dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history". Video: Pool/PA The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Nine thousand children died in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes betwe...
Source: irishtimes.com