They've described as 'nonsense' plans to spend millions on a museum while hundreds of babies' graves remain unmarked at former mother and baby homes
Survivors of mother and baby homes have hit out at the Government for spending millions on “nonsense” and not a penny marking babies’ graves.
“They called down an old nurse and she squeezed the afterbirth out of me. her fingernails was left on my stomach. When I woke up the nun said ‘you’ve an angel in heaven’. I just cried.” The manicured burial grounds at Bessborough adjoining the area known as The Folly contain graves of nuns from the Order of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A statue of Jesus with his hand raised in blessing guards it, and crosses clearly mark the name and burial location of the sisters.
She said the Cork survivors were awaiting a decision to have the burial grounds marked, preserved and protected. But she added: “We have to talk about all the other grounds around the country that are not marked and protected. “None of us want pity, we want the supports put in place and we want to be acknowledged both the living and the dead.”
“The commodification of misery has to stop, we are not a gravy train. Why was millions diverted to nonsense when we have women suffering?”
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