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Irish PM apologizes over shocking Church child mortality report

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Irish PM apologizes over shocking Church child mortality report

Irish PM apologizes over shocking Church child mortality report

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has formally apologized for the state's "profound failure," after a government report detailed shocking conditions at Catholic Church-run homes for mothers and children between the 1920s and 1990s, in which some 9,000 children died.


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Thousands of infants died in Irish homes for unmarried mothers and their offspring run by the Catholic Church from the 1920s to the 1990s, an inquiry found on Tuesday, an "appalling" mortality rate..

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