Elaine Byrne: We knew about the Tuam babies scandal
When we rebury these babies, can we paint their cots with flowers?
Burying babies was always different. The coffins were too big.
These were the most terrible days of undertaking for my family. My mother would make the box herself. She would spend the night alone delicately putting it together. The inside was cradled with ribbons and a soft baby blue or pink blanket, depending. The outside was tenderly painted with flowers. My mother has seven children, and this was never a coffin or a ...
