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Catherine Corless

'Give the Tuam babies the dignified burials they deserve' - Catherine Corless

The ending of one day and the dawning of another, but what a long day it has been.

An appropriate take, I think, on my ten-year struggle to tease out the truth of what happened in Tuam, and to open the ears of those who govern us, guide us and preach to us.

The 796 babies and young children from the Tuam mother and baby home are missing, but nobody cared. Worse still, those involved who knew about those babies did their utmost to quell and quieten my efforts to expose the truth. I was alone on this journey, a voice in the wilderness.

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