While organisers welcome young people, they are also interested in meeting those who have lived some of their life in the world before they come into religious life, because then they are making a discerned choice.

Historian Catherine Corless, who spent four years researching the running of the Bon Secours home and concluded that 796 children had died there over almost four decades, said the Commission’s finding vindicated her work.

Welcomes government enquiry, promises co-operation and "to seek to obtain a dignified re-interment of the remains of the children in consecrated ground in Tuam.”