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Minister Zappone has agreed to a small scoping exercise to assess if the mother and baby home investigation can be expanded.
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Minister Zappone has agreed to a small scoping exercise to assess if the mother and baby home investigation can be expanded.
The Taoiseach said it was up to the coroner and everyone else involved to decide on the next steps.
PJ Haverty’s mother spent five years hammering on the door of the Tuam home trying to get the nuns to return her son – instead they gave him away.
A report into ‘destitute Irish girls’ investigated the problem of unmarried pregnant women travelling to England.
Adaser said that a “shiver went up her back” when she read of the Tuam home news.
TheJournal.ie finds a town reeling from confirmation of the truth hidden for generations in a muddy plot.
Reports about a mass grave first hit the headlines in May of 2014. Here’s what’s happened since.
Tuam must not be seen in isolation and unfortunately is only the tip of the iceberg, writes Paul Redmond.
“So many things get covered up these days, I am just so thankful that this has come out”.
Catherine Corless said that she has the names of 798 children who could be among the remains at the home.
They did say that they are fully committed to the Commission of Investigation ‘seeking the truth’ about what happened.
A significant amount of human remains were found in sewage chambers at a site first located by researcher Catherine Corless.
The excavation will take place following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies and the manner in which they were buried.
This week Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone announced it will be two more years before the report is published.
The survivor who wants to bring the case said that it had taken 23 years to get to this point.
They are seeking the remit of the commission to be widened and will hold a protest against it today.
Yesterday Paul Redmond gave an in depth historical look at St Patrick’s mother and baby home in Dublin. Here are some of the local government reports from the time.
Paul Redmond tells us what he has learned about St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin.
“I was so happy those days, I was thinking ‘This is definitely right, this is my family’.”
Mother and baby homes, including one group from a Protestant home, met with Minister James Reilly this month.
To understand what happened, it is vital to hold inquests into the deaths of all those buried at the site of the former home.
Martin Sixsmith travels to Ireland and America to reveal the moving stories of parents and children.
It’s fairly dull and gloomy out but here’s everything you need to know as you start your day.
The question of a suitable memorial is now being looked at by the Tuam Home Graveyard Committee.
The Commission have been asked to include a wide range of institutions within their scope of their inquiry.
The handing over of infant remains was legal under the Anatomy Act 1832 so as to provide “legal cadavers” for medical research.
One child was taken to hospital with severe whooping cough, conjunctivitis and infected feet.
The government will confirm the identity of the person that will chair the Commission of Inquiry tomorrow.
The letter details how one hospital was struggling to find foster mothers for children.
The returns from local authorities, disqualifying Dublin, shows that 17% of babies under the age of one died in registered maternity homes that year.
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.
Under the Maternity Homes Act 1934 every local authority in Ireland had to register the maternity homes in the county with the Department of Health.
Maternity homes that did not notify the authorities were liable to be fined up to ten pounds.
Two of the files requisitioned by the department as part of the investigation into mother and baby homes relate to the Bon Secours home in Tuam.
Sinn Féin wants the Commission of Investigation to be in place before the summer recess.
The information relates to the Tuam home, Bessborough in Cork, and St Patrick’s on the Navan Road in Dublin.
These are the unpalatable facts: we are living at a time of growing homelessness and food poverty, and we allow vulnerable children to socially excluded, neglected and ignored.
The test has been commissioned by the Irish Mail on Sunday which will publish the results in this weekend’s edition of the paper.
Sinn Féin’s deputy leader has called for a public inquiry to look into all mother and baby homes nationwide.