Summary: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Donohue" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Bill Donoghue</a> is the President and CEO of the <a href="http://www.catholicleague.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Catholic League</a>. The article that he wrote <a href="http://www.catholicleague.org/irelands-mass-graves-story-is-fake-news/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">claiming that the Tuam babies story is a hoax is here</a>. The report by the Mother And Baby Homes Commission Of Investigation which detailed the <a href="http://www.mbhcoi.ie/MBH.nsf/page/index-en" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">forensic findings is here</a>.<br> The text of the letter by Terry Prone, pouring scorn on Catherine Corless’s work and <a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/terry-prone-email-tuam-babies-site-1721252-Oct2014/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">denying the existence of a grave related to the home is here</a>. A letter a year earlier from Prone’s client,<a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/terry-prone-email-tuam-babies-site-1721252-Oct2014/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer"> Sr Marie Ryan country leader of the Bon Secours nuns</a> confirms that, in fact, she was well aware that children from the homes were buried on the grounds of the home.<br> Part of Mary Merrit’s story detailing <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29307705" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">life in one of the homes is here</a>. In response to the findings, the bishop of Limerick, Brendan Leahy said in reaction to the findings “<a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/tuam-citizens-assembly-3272080-Mar2017/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">we hang our heads in shame</a>”.<br> The Bon Secours nuns own the <a href="http://www.bonsecours.ie/index.cfm/page/aboutus" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">profitable Bon Secours healthcare group</a>, and finance minister <a href="http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/238617/bon-secours-group-invests-21m-in-limerick-after-barringtons-take-over.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Michael Noonan opened their new €21m hospital in Limerick</a> last week.<br> The annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Vital_statistics_of_Ireland.5B15.5D" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">birth rate in Ireland is here</a>, and information about the effects of malnutrition were found by the <a href="http://www.childabusecommission.ie/publications/documents/abuse.htm" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Laffoy Commission</a>.<br> <a href="http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5001/1/Eleanor%20O'Leary%20PhD%20Thesis%202013%20Final%20Edited%20Version%20(1).pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Wages in Ireland in the 1940s</a> (see table 9) were typically between £2 and £4 per week; in the 1920s, wages for agricultural workers were <a href="http://www.muckrosshouseresearchlibrary.ie/Ireland-1930s-1940s.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">less than 15s (£0.75) per week</a>. In 1928 the Connaught Tribune reported that local politicians thought that <a href="http://www.rabble.ie/2014/05/28/the-septic-tank-full-of-secrets/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">the payment to the Tuam home of 10s (£0.50) per week</a> was excessive. It is clear that the Bon Secours nuns had a far more generous budget to feed and clothe the children than many families, before taking into account the profits from their businesses that used the slave labour of their mothers, or the profits of selling adoptive babies to American couples.<br>
