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Bessborough’s missing babies with Donal O’Keeffe
The granting of planning permission for 140 apartments on the site of Cork’s most infamous mother and baby institution last week has caused deep upset to survivors and relatives of those who were incarcerated in Bessborough.Hundreds of babies died at Bessborough between 1922 and 1994, and the Mother and Baby Homes Commission found they were most likely buried on the sprawling site of the former institution. Their bodies have never been located, and now there are plans to build on the site.Donal O’Keeffe, reporter with the Irish Examiner and the Echo, was the first to unearth the names of all…
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