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BREAKING: Republic of Ireland to apologise after ‘9,000 children’ died in institutions

The Irish Government is expected to make a formal state apology after a report found 9,000 children died in so-called Mother and Baby Homes from 1922 to the late 1990s.

A five-year investigation by a judicial commission of investigation detailed how the children died at 18 institutions for unmarried mothers and their babies.

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