Twelve years ago, an enormous controversy broke out worldwide over a former children’s home in Tuam, County Galway, which had been run by the Bons Secours Sisters from the time it opened in 1925 until it closed in 1961.
The story emerged when a local woman, Catherine Corless, found the death certificates for more than 800 children who died in the place, but no burial certificates. People wondered where they were buried. Beneath the grounds of the old home is a structure that might once have contained waste water or sewage. Some bodies are in it. Everyone concluded that all the bodies were in the structure and that the nuns had put them there.
