Mum survived Tuam home hell ... now I want to buy her a place of her own

A MAN who was reunited with his birth mother a survivor of one of Ireland's most notorious mother and baby homes has launched a fundraiser to help her buy her house.

- BY LYNN RUSK

Patrick Naughton, 70, from Ealing, west London, was taken from his mother, Christina 'Chrissie' Tully, from the Tuam mother and baby home in Co Galway, in 1954, just weeks after she gave birth to him aged 24.

Mr Naughton, who moved to the UK with his adoptive parents aged 13, was reunited with Ms Tully, now 93, in 2013.

Ms Tully, who had given birth to another boy in 1949, when she was 18, via caesarean section, was told by doctors at the time that he had died.

But she believes her son, whom she named Michael, is still alive.

In a bid to help his birth mother, whom he said "never had anything in her life", Mr Naughton has set up a fundraiser to help her buy her council home, so her son Michael will "always have a home" to which he can return.

"I am terribly sorry for the raw deal that Chrissie has got," Mr Naughton said.