Holly Cairns raised the issue in the Dáil on Wednesday following similar calls on Tuesday

Michael Bolton A woman whose brother died six weeks after he was born at the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork has said that she is shocked at a decision to allow apartments to ...

Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin said a decision to grant planning permission to build apartments on the site in Bessborough, Co Cork, was ‘appalling’.

Developer Estuary View Enterprises has been granted permission for the large scale residential development at Bessborough in Ballinure, Blackrock in Cork.

It comes just days after an even larger apartment complex in a separate part of the Bessborough grounds in Cork was refused planning.