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Mother And Baby Report: Survivor Says Illegally Adopted People "Thrown Under Bus"

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation has produced its final report detailing the experiences of women and children who lived in 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes between 1922 and 1998. The report confirms that 9,000 children died in the 18 homes under investigation, amounting to about 15% of all children who were in these institutions. But survivors have argued that the report is incomplete. Paul Redmond from the Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors, who is a survivor of the home in Castlepollard, told The Last Word that those who were illegally adopted from the institutions have been "thrown under the bus". Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, lecturer in history at NUI Galway and co-principal investigator for the Tuam Home Oral History Project, and Maree Ryan-O'Brien, founder of Aitheantas, which campaigns to give Irish adoptees access to their own birth information, also joined us with their reaction to the report. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/01/12170204/LW-Mother-And-Baby-Homes.mp3"][/audio] see more