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# bessborough home

Last year
2022
Campaigners 'outraged' over plan to build 420 apartments on Bessborough mother and baby home site
Plans were lodged with An Bord Pleanála earlier this year by Estuary View Enterprises.
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Aug 25th 2022, 6:24 PM
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A Bessborough Tale: 'Some nights all you could hear was sobbing'
To this day I have never experienced the grief and despair I felt leaving my baby son. I thought I would physically break in half.
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Jul 11th 2014, 8:00 AM
Adoption Rights Alliance cautiously welcomes inquiry into mother and baby homes
The group also want assurances new legislation regarding adoption information and tracing be considered.
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Jun 11th 2014, 8:08 AM