The debate over the death rates at Mother and Baby home has focused on the mindset of the nuns who ran the homes, and the motives of the families and society at large whose support was vital to their existence. Who is to be held responsible?

In studio to discuss

• Sean Lucey, Research Fellow at the School of History in Queen's University Belfast and author of a soon to be published book The End of the Irish Poor Law? Welfare and Healthcare in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland
• Susan Lohan, co-founder of the Adoption Rights Alliance,

• Carol Hunt, Sunday Independent columnist.

• Fr. Vincent Twomey Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at Maynooth University.

 Our Musical Heirlooms guest is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, John Shinnors.