FILE PHOTO Taoiseach Micheal Martin will today issue an apology on behalf of the State to the survivors of Mother and Baby homes END 26/10/2020 Covid-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus), Ireland. Day 214 since start of lockdown. Day 5 of nationwide Level 5 lockdown. Gardai watch Protesters during a Mother and Baby Home protest event at Aras an Uachtarain gate in Dublin on a bank holiday Monday. The protest s calling on President Michael D.Higgins not to uphold the controversial Mother and Baby Homes legislation. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ie