#552 Tuam: Truth, Lies, and the Nuns on Trial

Today on The Niall Boylan Show , Niall sits down with Laura Perrins from Gript Media to tackle one of Ireland’s most divisive and painful historical debates — the legacy of the Mother and Baby Homes, and in particular, the controversy surrounding Tuam.

Laura joins the show to defend the reputation of the Bon Secours nuns, arguing that much of what has been reported about Tuam — including claims of a “mass grave” and “atrocities” — has been distorted or exaggerated by the media. Drawing on the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes (2021), Laura makes the case that the scandal at Tuam was the result of poverty, disease, and State neglect, not deliberate cruelty.

Niall presses Laura on these claims — asking whether the nuns and the Church can truly be absolved, and where moral responsibility lies for the suffering of unmarried mothers and their children in mid-20th-century Ireland.

Then, Niall opens the phone lines and asks listeners:

📞 “Who is to blame for what happened in the Irish Mother and Baby Homes?”

Was it the nuns, the Church, the State — or Irish society itself?

Expect a heated, emotional, and deeply human conversation about history, truth, and the power of media narratives.