Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Taoiseach will apologise on behalf of the State in the Dail later to the survivors of Mother and Baby Homes.
It follows yesterday's publication of the long-awaited Commission of Investigation report, which found an "appalling" level of infant mortality among the children born there.
9,000 died in the 18 institutions examined between the 1920s and 1990s.
The report identified 2,219 women who were admitted to the Tuam home when it was first in Glenamaddy from 1921 to 1925, and in Tuam from 1925 to 1961.
The commission identified 978 child deaths at the home, including when it was based in Glenamaddy.
Micheál Martin described the report as harrowing and said society did this to the women and children.
But Historian Catherine Corless says those comments have caused a lot of hurt.
