Planning appeals tribunal to hold oral hearing on future of Bessborough Mother and Baby Home site
Property developer MWB has plans to build 67 apartments on the site.
The Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance, which represents mothers who were in the home, says a graveyard on the site must not be touched.
Maureen Considine, a researcher with the group, says they only want those buried there to rest in peace:
"What we've been asking for is preservation of the site and the area where the children are buried to be treated as a public burial ground, with all of the protections that's involved, and all of the rights that come with being a public registered burial ground and really all these women want is to have some equality, now in death, that wasn't afforded to them or their children in life."
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