'Very likely' many of the 796 babies' remains at Tuam grave will never be identified – The Irish Times
Daniel Mac Sweeney, leading the exhumation, says process will operate at ‘limits of forensic science’
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Daniel Mac Sweeney, leading the exhumation, says process will operate at ‘limits of forensic science’
The Corkman heading up the Tuam excavation says the task of recovering and identifying the remains of 796 babies buried in a disused cesspit has given him many sleepless nights.
Daniel Mac Sweeney was working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon when the Tuam babies’ scandal broke in 2014. The University of Galway graduate was involved in research and identification of missing persons, of which there were around 3,000 associated with the Middle Eastern country’s civil war from 1975-95. Almost […]
Like so many books today, it seems aimed at convincing an audience that will never read it.
Between 1925 and 1961, babies and children were interred in the home’s grounds, many in a septic tank