Taoiseach To Apologise For Horrors Of Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes

TUAM, IRELAND - JANUARY 13: A mother hugs her child after leaving flowers at the shrine which stands on a mass burial site which was formerly part of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby home on January 13, 2021 in Tuam, Ireland. From 1921 to 1961, 978 children died at the Bon Secours order of nuns Mother and Baby home in Tuam, 80 percent were aged under 12 months, 67 percent between one and six months. The site was excavated and a mass burial site was found in a former sewage tank. The Taoiseach Micheal Martin today apologised to the families and survivors following a report published yesterday regarding Mothers and Baby homes throughout Ireland saying The State failed you. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)