The admission by the HSE that up to the 80s hospitals arranged for
bodies of some babies to be buried with unrelated adults in the same
coffins is extraordinary and numbing. But, with hindsight, we shouldn’t have been surprised.
It’s just another of Ireland’s deadly secrets which really was only hidden in the shadows because the population chose to turn a blind eye. The “tandem burials”, as they have been called, were a disgrace nobody would admit – like the infamous Magdalene Laundries and notorious clerical sex attacks on children.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/news-opinion/clancys-craic-tandem-burials-revelations-4815842
It’s just another of Ireland’s deadly secrets which really was only hidden in the shadows because the population chose to turn a blind eye. The “tandem burials”, as they have been called, were a disgrace nobody would admit – like the infamous Magdalene Laundries and notorious clerical sex attacks on children.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/news-opinion/clancys-craic-tandem-burials-revelations-4815842