In 2017, her play Postscript, based on her own experience of finding her birth mother, was performed at the Abbey’s Peacock theatre. Mary Coughlan is one of the participants in the Abbey Theatre's Home project. There is real hurt about the report, the survivors put their trust in a commission that treated them appallingly. They were the children of people who were born in Mother and Baby Homes, a whole other generation that were so angry and upset on behalf of their mothers and fathers. There is a lovely letter form Laura Murphy, the young woman whose mother was in a Mother and Baby Home, who wrote to the Taoiseach taking him to task about his apology.

Source: Irish Examiner March 15, 2021 19:52 UTC