Funeral arrangements have been announced for Rosaleen ‘Rosie’ McKinney, an 86-year-old mother and baby home campaigner who died in the Mater Hospital in Dublin on New Year’s Day following a short illness.
A survivor of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, Ms McKinney of Cabra told the Irish Examiner in 2021 that women in her position were “treated like animals.”
She said that she lost the hearing in her right ear from a beating she got from a nun.
Ms McKinney added that the revelation that some 796 children are missing in Tuam, some buried in a disused sewerage system, was a source of horror to her.
“How could the nuns be so cruel? They’re supposed to work for God, and look what they did to mothers and their babies,” she said.
A native of Dunmore in Co Galway where she was the youngest in a family of nine, Rosie had two babies as a teenager in the St Mary’s Home in Tuam.
Five years of her life were spent there and in the Galway Magdalene…
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