*Lauretta Callaghan O’Dea. Photograph: Natasha Barton A KILRUSH WOMAN has expressed her disgust at the decision to scrap a promised independent review of testimony given by survivors of the Mother and Baby homes.
Mother and Baby Home survivors need to be listened to properly, a Clare TD has said while calling for support for a cross-party motion that is to go before the Dáil this Tuesday.
*Lauretta Callaghan O’Dea. Photograph: Natasha Barton A Kilrush woman who spent over three months living in a Mother and Baby Home has spoken publicly for the first time on her experience.
A memorial to the women who gave birth and the infants who died at the county’s only Mother and Baby Home has been unveiled.
An apology has been issued by Clare County Council for its role in the operation of the county’s only Mother and Baby Home, 89 years on from its closure.
Recognition for the mothers and babies from the County Clare Nursery in the form of a fitting memorial is needed in the town of Kilrush.
The story of an Ennistymon mother and the death of her daughter has been described as one of the most heartbreaking stories to emerge from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation.
Conditions in the County Clare Nursery have been described as “even worse than Tuam” with “appalling” rates of infant mortality.
An apology has been issued from the Bishop of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan following the Commission of the Mother and Baby Homes report.
