PJ Haverty on life after the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

Patrick Joseph Haverty spent the first five and a half years of his life in Tuam mother and baby home.
Sitting in local historian Catherine Corless’s house, Haverty tells TheJournal.ie that the formal recognition that “a significant number” of children’s remains have been discovered in sewage containers at the old mother and baby home site is “bittersweet”.
For years, survivors like Haverty have been telling their story, but until three years ago, it had fallen on deaf ears, something he says has to change now jrnl.ie/3270398
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[@nobonespurs]

P. J. Haverty, thank you for your story, so glad you got to meet your Mum - I never did.

[@eamonnobrien1410]

You are a great person you are a hero I am a shame of the church and the government what the done I just hope that one day the well get what coming to thim

[@gordonbradley3241]

Religion is such a comfort and s consolation doncha find ?