Micheal contacts survivors before ‘shocking' report

Findings will be ‘difficult for everyone’

- SYLVIA POWNALL

TAOISEACH Micheal Martin and Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman have reached out privately to survivors of mother and baby homes, we can reveal.

Both have personally contacted a number of former residents ahead of the publication of a long-awaited report from a commission of inquiry set up seven years ago.

It is understood Minister O’Gorman was “uncomfortable” with the narrative around the report and is anxious to fairly represent survivors and their experiences.

It is also understood a number of survivors will be given an outline of the report’s findings immediately after it is brought to Cabinet on Tuesday prior to publication.