Sir, – Marie Moynihan (November 6th) states, “It is time for the truth about the Disappeared”, describing the heartbreak of the families who wonder where their loved ones are buried.
When the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity sold some land at their High Park convent in Drumcondra 20 years ago, the developers had to exhume and cremate the remains of 133 women who had been locked away for years in the laundry. An extra 22 bodies unaccounted for were discovered, some with their broken bones still in plaster-casts. The Department of the Environment was reported as saying that it could not identify them because of “insufficient details”. Their unexplained deaths were neither registered nor investigated.
We may never know who they were. There is no way back from cremation. – Yours, etc,
JUDY BURKE,
Burgatia, Rosscarbery,
Co Cork.