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# mother-and-baby homes

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Illegal adoption investigator says she was treated 'disrespectfully and in an unprofessional manner' by Dept
25 Apr 2021
48.5k
28
'My foster father wiped down everything I touched': Call to tackle racism in social care
24 Apr 2021
53.2k
'It's a children's burial ground': Expert claims map of Bessborough site is correct
Updated 22 Apr 2021
18.9k
27
Survivors call plan to build apartments at Bessborough site 'an abhorrent act of desecration'
Updated 21 Apr 2021
31.4k
21
UN asked to intervene over Ireland's response to 'systemic racism' in mother and baby homes
16 Apr 2021
14.4k
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
Updated 14 Apr 2021
18.8k
27
'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes
14 Apr 2021
10.9k
22
Philomena Lee among women taking legal action against findings in Mother and Baby Home report
Updated 12 Apr 2021
70.2k
'Imagine someone clicked their fingers and you had no family or history, that's the reality for thousands of us'
6 Apr 2021
13.6k
16
'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day
4 Apr 2021
28.7k
41
Department apologises after 'careless' data breach of people attending mother and baby home redress meetings
25 Mar 2021
21.6k
12
Campaigner Derek Leinster says Protestant survivors and those living abroad 'not a priority' for redress
25 Mar 2021
22.2k
3
UN asked to request that Irish govt sets up independent investigation into Mother and Baby Homes
24 Mar 2021
10.3k
19
'I spent 28 years wondering where my child was, they were 45 minutes down the road'
20 Mar 2021
96.5k
Department says consulting firm was hired due to 'urgency' in setting up mother and baby home redress scheme
17 Mar 2021
16.8k
10
O'Gorman says adopted people will get birth certs and other information under new legislation
Updated 10 Mar 2021
19.0k
15
Report into illegal adoptions estimates there are thousands of 'suspicious' files, but advises against inquiry
9 Mar 2021
10.3k
12
Social Democrats vote unanimously to push government towards clear redress scheme for Mother and Baby Home survivors
27 Feb 2021
12.4k
18
'If the Commission dissolves tomorrow, we'll be denied justice': Survivor says testimony was 'misrepresented'
27 Feb 2021
8.8k
O'Gorman says there is 'no meaningful reason' to extend Mother and Baby Homes Commission
26 Feb 2021
8.1k
9
Data Protection Commissioner: Transfer of Mother and Baby Homes records to Dept could be 'high risk'
Updated 25 Feb 2021
19.5k
16
TDs ask how testimony 'miraculously appeared down back of sofa', as time runs out to extend Commission
Updated 24 Feb 2021
33.5k
31
TDs still pushing for extension of Mother and Baby Homes Commission despite 'miraculous' recovery of testimony
24 Feb 2021
14.8k
8
Audio recordings of Mother and Baby Home testimony can be retrieved, Dept confirms
23 Feb 2021
10.8k
18
Call for TDs to get free vote on extension of Mother and Baby Homes Commission
22 Feb 2021
6.6k
7
'My mother gave birth to three children in three mother and baby homes in three years'
19 Feb 2021
51.5k
O'Gorman says Mother and Baby Homes Commission *may* be able to retrieve recordings
Updated 19 Feb 2021
21.2k
56
If government extends term of Commission we need to know it will serve a purpose - Varadkar
18 Feb 2021
12.1k
22
UK police refer county home survivor back to gardaí over destruction of testimony
17 Feb 2021
24.8k
Audio recordings of Mother and Baby Home testimony 'cannot be retrieved', O'Gorman confirms
Updated 16 Feb 2021
33.3k
55
County home survivor told to contact police in England, not gardaí, over destruction of testimony
16 Feb 2021
46.0k
30
'A nun poured urine on my head because I snored': Survivors contact DPC and gardaí over destruction of testimony
Updated 9 Feb 2021
58.0k
Michelle O'Neill: Mother and baby homes were the product of systemic misogyny
Michelle O'Neill
6 Feb 2021
22.7k
65
'Lives could be saved': Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
6 Feb 2021
26.1k
4
Chair of mother and baby home commission declines invitation to appear before Children's Committee
5 Feb 2021
18.5k
5
Varadkar says he was 'quite surprised' that mother and baby home testimony was destroyed
Updated 4 Feb 2021
22.4k
24
'Adding insult to injury': Anger over mother and baby home recordings being destroyed
Updated 31 Jan 2021
26.4k
37
Opinion: 'She knocked on the door and the nun said her son was gone' - the story of the forgotten foster children
Jamie Canavan
31 Jan 2021
29.1k
12
Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs
30 Jan 2021
51.8k
14
'The brother whipped him until his back was bleeding, then gave him an orange to keep quiet'
30 Jan 2021
151k
30
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