Family members and survivors of the Tuam mother and baby home have issued a renewed call on the Government to carry out a full exhumation of the site following a series of events to honour the 796 Tuam babies on Saturday. The white blanket, the brainchild of Dublin-based artist Barbara O’Meara, was made by 300 women across the globe. Tuam Home Survivors Network chairman Peter Mulryan, whose younger sister was among the 796 babies, said the survivors were overwhelmed by the support they had received for Saturday’s event. He expressed anger that the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar had visited the site in a personal capacity recently without making any attempt to contact the survivors. We don’t understand why a public figure like an Taoiseach would come sneaking down, with nobody to meet him.

Source: The Irish Times September 30, 2018 17:15 UTC