Children's toys and flowers at the 'Little Angels' memorial plot in the grounds of Bessborough, Cork Image: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie Children's toys and flowers at the 'Little Angels' memorial plot in the grounds of Bessborough, Cork Image: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.
The Act allows the Government to direct an intervention at a site where “manifestly inappropriate burials” of people who died in residential institutions took place. The Government has confirmed that the site at Tuam meets the criteria for such an intervention to take place. The Bessborough institution operated from 1922 and 1998, during which time 923 children died at the home or in hospital shortly after being transferred there.
Cantwell has been calling for “a thorough investigation” into the deaths and burials at Bessborough for several years and in May wrote to Minister O’Gorman asking for the site to be excavated. “All of us in the Bessboro Support Group and the Bessboro Commemoration Group want the truth to be established. We want to respect every child and mother that died at Bessborough even if that means after an exhaustive investigation no mass burial site is found.
“We found out where my brother is buried – well, not exactly where, but we know he is somewhere on a five-acre site [in Carr's Hill]. We thought he was buried in Bessborough until a few years ago because the nuns told mother that’s where he was. “One of the key questions about Bessborough is the protection of the identified burial site, I know Cork City Council are working on that in terms of their development plan.
Some survivors and relatives want to see an excavation at Bessborough, but others disagree with this approach and want a memorial to be erected there instead. Anna Corrigan, whose brothers were born at the Tuam mother and baby institution, last month said that the Government’s plans to exhume the bodies of infants at that particular site “does not go far enough”.
Earlier this year, Estuary View Enterprises lodged combined Strategic Housing Development plans with An Bord Pleanála to construct 420 apartments plus a café and crèche on the site.
Course it won't. Why would fffgg want to dig up their legacy. They want to keep it buried.
Of course it wont, fffg want to bury this (no pun intended) as soon as they possibly can. It is their party's liability for killing, murdering, torturing, human trafficking and experimentation of our people.
Mark_finner your government!
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