Excavation to Begin at Former Tuam Mother-and-Baby Home Today – 14/07/2025
Excavation work is due to commence at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.The start of the effort to exhume and identify human remains from the site comes more than 11 years after research by Catherine Corless found that there were no burial records for almost 800 babies and infants who died at the home over a 36-year period. Irish Historian Catherine Corless, who began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010, spoke to us this morning on The Agenda to tell us more about what is expected to happen today and over the next number of weeks/months…
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