The survivors of homes for unmarried mothers and babies often run by the church.

After an inquiry revealed around 9000 Children died over the decades at one institution in County Galway, almost 800 died, and it's thought many of them were buried in a sewage system.

Our Island correspondent Chris Page, begins his report with a man who was born in the home.

The only thing that I remember is the bed spin west to march down to school.

You had to go 10 minutes later in the morning, who had to leave 10 minutes early in the evening.

We were all cornered off in the section of the playground by the nuns so you wouldn't mix with the other kids and then to be loved up what I call the prison really, and to think like why, just because I was brought out of wedlock, P.

J.

Haverty spent his first seven years in the home, which once stood here.

Ireland, in the 19 fifties was a deeply conservative Catholic society on married women who were pregnant were taken into religious institutions and separated from their Children.

The four others got away with it.

It was always the woman that was to blame.

It was always the woman's fault.

And I suppose then when you look at other people, I was looking.

I got to meet my mother.

If I didn't meet her, I would be lemon or for him in there.

There's another reason why PJ thinks he's lucky.

At the tomb home, nearly 800 Children aged up to three died between 1925 and 1961.

Investigators believe many were buried at the site in some kind of sewage system.

When I go down there and stand there to think that I could be in their toe, that religious country that we are supposed to be would do the likes of that helpless little baby.

The Irish government has committed toe having this site excavated, so the Children whose remains were beneath this grind can be reburied with some dignity.

Chum is the mother and baby home, which has generated the most international attention.

But there are many other institutions in the Republic of Ireland with long histories off, she, um neglect and unspeakable cruelty.

The inquiry report says around 9000 Children died in the 18 homes which were investigated.

That's about one in seven of those who were born in the institutions, investigators state.

It represents an appalling level of infant mortality.

The Irish government has said there were decades of brutality the regime described in the report wasn't imposed on us by any foreign power.

We did this to ourselves as a society.

We treated women exceptionally badly.

We treated Children exceptionally badly.

But P J thinks the report hasn't got to the full truth.

There was not in there today that would say, God, that's fantastic.

Now my mother is being recognized, are apologizing to my mother and they didn't do that today.

Tonight, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop M.

And Martin, has apologized for the long lasting emotional distress which survivors have suffered in this country.

History will still hurt for years to come.