In nearly
two decades as a foreign correspondent, I covered stories of mass graves
in far-flung locations in Eastern Europe and Russia. The thought of
them has remained lodged in my memory.
But
never did I expect to be covering a mass grave from modern times on my
own doorstep; I thought Western and Northern Europe was immune from such
horrors. Yet
that is exactly what I came across in January this year in the small
Irish town of Tuam in County Galway, an ugly place with its rundown
streets and council estates.