Tuam, Ireland, June 15, 2025 (AFP) - 'Mass grave' excavation to finally start at Irish mother and baby home

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2025-06-15

A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland's "mother and baby" home scandal. Beneath the ground at this peaceful spot in the town of Tuam, 135 miles (220 kilometres) west of Dublin, significant quantities of human remains have been identified. The land, attached to a home run by nuns between 1925 and 1961, was left largely untouched after the institution was k......

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