‘A stain on Ireland’s conscience’: identification to begin of 796 bodies buried at children’s home

The Guardian

By Rory Carroll

June 25, 2023

On a balmy summer day, the site of the children’s mass grave in Tuam appears deceptively bucolic. There are no crosses or tombstones in the walled patch of grass. Butterflies flit over shrubs. Robins cheep from branches. It’s peaceful.

“They are two-feet down from where we are standing,” Catherine Corless said. “The bones have mingled together and water got in and thrashed them around. But they’re there.”