Calls for investigations to be made into Bessborough mother and baby home

The discovery of a mass grave at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has led to calls for Bessborough to be investigated in a similar way.

Politicians on all sides of the political divide have condemned the Galway find which comprises of hundreds of discarded babies' bodies. 

People Before Profit have also said the Bon Secours order - which ran the Tuam home - should be disbanded. 

PBP Councillor Deirdre Wadding was herself sent to Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork in 1981:

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