‘We embraced judgmental, moral certainty and perverse religious morality,’ says taoiseach
Ireland has ripped back the veil on a dark historical chapter which condemned tens of thousands of unmarried mothers and their babies to callousness and cruelty in state- and Catholic church-run institutions.
A judicial commission of investigation on Tuesday published a long-awaited 2,865-page report into a network of “mother and baby homes” that inflicted abuse and shame – with the complicity of wider society – for much of the 20th century.
