Survivors Groups are calling for a wider investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and other institutions.
It comes after the announcement by the commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in Tuam announced on Friday that a ‘significant’ number of children’s remains were discovered.
Meanwhile, a memorial plaque is being sought at the site of a home in Kilrush.
Last Friday it was revealed that a “significant” number of infants and children were buried on the grounds of a former institution in Tuam.
And today, Justice for Magdalenes says there are 180 agencies, institutions and individuals who worked with unwed mothers and their children across the country.
But the group’s co-founder says this doesn’t mean there are only 180 sites to investigate.
Claire McGettrick wants the investigation must be widened.
The Social Protection Minister has today described the revelations as “nothing less than gruesome”.
Leo Varadkar says there are still so many unanswered questions from the mother and baby home scandal, describing the Galway case as “abhorrent”.
A Commission of Investigation is examining how women entered mother and baby homes and to establish the living conditions they experienced there.
Kathy McMahon is the spokesperson for First Mothers’ Group of survivors, who are calling for searches of the grounds of mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries, in light of the Tuam babies scandal.
She has finally met her daughter, after she was taken away from her days after birth in 1974.
The Kilrush Mother and Baby Home is one of those being examined by the commission of investigation.
The facility was located on the Cooraclare Road, operated in the 1920’s, and it is known that there was a high level of infant mortality there.
Local Historian Rita McCarthy believes those who stayed and died there now should be remembered with a suitable memorial.
