Overview

• A 2.4-metre-high hoarding now encircles the site perimeter under 24-hour security to preserve forensic integrity.
• ODAIT hosted a closed Family and Survivors Day on Tuesday to brief relatives on excavation plans.
• Excavation is slated to start within days and will span two years of exhumation, analysis, identification when possible, and reinterment.
• Personnel from Colombia, Spain, the UK, Canada, the US and Australia have joined Irish specialists on the ODAIT team.
• The project is enabled by the 2022 Institutional Burials Act and follows Catherine Corless’s 2014 research and formal state and religious apologies.