Apartments to be built on Bessborough Mother and Baby Home site
The Hard Shoulder · Newstalk
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Show Notes
A protest is being held on Wednesday March 18th outside the Dáil to protest the approval of plans for 140 apartments on the site of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork.
This comes after a vigil was held last Sunday at the gates of the former Mother and Baby Home in Cork.
In 2021, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes found that 923 babies associated with Bessborough died between 1922 and 1998, and burial records for only 64 of them were found…
Noelle Brown is a campaigner, Bessborough survivor and Social Democrat Councilor for Kimmage-Rathmines, and she joins Shane to discuss.