A special meeting of Mayo County Council will take place this afternoon at 2pm   - to look at the local authority’s responsibility for what happened to residents of Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home.

The special meeting was requested last month by Independent Westport councillor Christy Hyland and was unanimously supported by councillors in response to the 3,000 page Commission of Investigation Report into Mother and Baby Homes, published last month.

The report indicated that close to a third of the residents of the Bon Secours run Tuam Mother and Baby home were from county Mayo.

Breeda Murphy of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance says it’s appropriate that Mayo County Council acknowledge its responsibility to residents of the home from 1931 through to the 1960s.

Breeda has been outlining to Midwest News today the extent of the links between Mayo County Council and the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam and its impact on young mothers and their children.