Niall Meehan, the head of journalism at Griffith College, found the unmarked grave of 219 BethanyHome children at Mount Jerome cemetery near Harold's Cross in south Dublin.
The Irish government's decision to apologise to the women who worked in the Magdalene Laundries - workhouses run by nuns - has prompted members of the BethanyHome Survivors Group group to say they also want justice.
Now living in Rugby, in the English Midlands, he describes Bethany as a "place of hell", but not as bad as the home of the dysfunctional adoptive parents in County Wicklow he was sent to when he was nearly four.