July 14, 2025 | 7:15 am
A full exhumation of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam in Co. Galway gets underway today.
It’s the country’s first ever mass exhumation, following the discovery of children and babies buried on the grounds of the home.
An independent body expects to take two years to fully exhume the remains of the 796 infants believed to be buried there.
Alison O’Reilly, Journalist with the Irish Examiner says they have legal documents on the deaths of the children.
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