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# mother-and-baby homes

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# Investigation
Social Democrats vote unanimously to push government towards clear redress scheme for Mother and Baby Home survivors
At the party’s national conference, Social Democrats voted to call on the government to prioritise addressing survivors’ concerns.
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Feb 27th 2021, 6:37 PM
# mother-and-baby homes
'If the Commission dissolves tomorrow, we'll be denied justice': Survivor says testimony was 'misrepresented'
One survivor says her experience was “misrepresented” to a “shocking extent” in the final report by the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes.
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Feb 27th 2021, 9:30 AM
# deleted tapes
O'Gorman says there is 'no meaningful reason' to extend Mother and Baby Homes Commission
The minister noted that members of the commission “can’t be compelled to come before the Oireachtas”.
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Feb 26th 2021, 3:02 PM
# department of children
Data Protection Commissioner: Transfer of Mother and Baby Homes records to Dept could be 'high risk'
Around 100,000 records are expected to be moved to the Department of Children next week.
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Feb 25th 2021, 3:59 PM
# mother-and-baby homes
TDs ask how testimony 'miraculously appeared down back of sofa', as time runs out to extend Commission
A Social Democrats’ motion to extend the commission’s term by one year had broad support but is non-binding and is not being acted on by government.
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Feb 24th 2021, 4:37 PM
# deleted audio
TDs still pushing for extension of Mother and Baby Homes Commission despite 'miraculous' recovery of testimony
The commission is due to dissolve on 28 February but a number of TDs want its term extended amid concerns over deleted audio recordings.
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Feb 24th 2021, 6:05 AM
# Mother and Baby
Audio recordings of Mother and Baby Home testimony can be retrieved, Dept confirms
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has agreed to deposit the recordings with the Department.
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Feb 23rd 2021, 7:58 PM
# deleted audio
Call for TDs to get free vote on extension of Mother and Baby Homes Commission
Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore said the issue “goes beyond party politics”.
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Feb 22nd 2021, 2:53 PM
# Adoption
'My mother gave birth to three children in three mother and baby homes in three years'
Beth Wallace wants to commemorate her brother who died, aged five weeks, 49 years ago today.
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Feb 19th 2021, 6:04 PM
# Testimony
O'Gorman says Mother and Baby Homes Commission *may* be able to retrieve recordings
“We all know how difficult it is to permanently destroy electronic information,” the minister said today.
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Feb 19th 2021, 3:10 PM
# Mother and Baby
If government extends term of Commission we need to know it will serve a purpose - Varadkar
The Tánasite said he could not make a commitment today that it would be extended beyond 28 February.
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Feb 18th 2021, 2:39 PM
# recordings
UK police refer county home survivor back to gardaí over destruction of testimony
Mary Teresa Collins said she feels “very hurt and let down” by authorities in Ireland.
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Feb 17th 2021, 7:23 PM
# Commission
Audio recordings of Mother and Baby Home testimony 'cannot be retrieved', O'Gorman confirms
The minister said the Commission informed him of the latest development today.
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Feb 16th 2021, 6:44 PM
# Commission
County home survivor told to contact police in England, not gardaí, over destruction of testimony
A number of witnesses have contacted the gardaí and Data Protection Commissioner to date.
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Feb 16th 2021, 12:00 PM
# Commission
'A nun poured urine on my head because I snored': Survivors contact DPC and gardaí over destruction of testimony
People who spent time in Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes say they have been “re-traumatised” by recent developments.
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Feb 9th 2021, 12:05 AM
Voices
Michelle O'Neill: Mother and baby homes were the product of systemic misogyny
Following the recent report on institutions there, Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister says an all-island approach is needed on this issue, to address the wrongs of the past.
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Feb 6th 2021, 2:00 PM
# Multiple Sclerosis
'Lives could be saved': Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
“So many lives could be made better, saved, elongated, if doctors knew what they were testing for.”
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Feb 6th 2021, 10:30 AM
# final report
Chair of mother and baby home commission declines invitation to appear before Children's Committee
Committee members are “very disappointed” by the latest development.
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Feb 5th 2021, 2:06 PM
# mother-and-baby homes
Varadkar says he was 'quite surprised' that mother and baby home testimony was destroyed
There have been calls for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to not be dissolved at the end of the month.
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Feb 4th 2021, 1:35 PM
# Commission
'Adding insult to injury': Anger over mother and baby home recordings being destroyed
Survivors say they were not informed their testimony would be destroyed.
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Jan 31st 2021, 1:58 PM
Voices
Opinion: 'She knocked on the door and the nun said her son was gone' - the story of the forgotten foster children
Jamie Canavan is researching the stories of children who were forced into ‘boarding out’, a term given to fostering in the early to mid last century.
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Jan 31st 2021, 8:30 AM
# burials
Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs
A Bessborough survivor has said the revelations are “heartbreaking and shocking”.
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Jan 30th 2021, 2:52 PM
# Industrial School
'The brother whipped him until his back was bleeding, then gave him an orange to keep quiet'
Joe McAveety was born in a mother and baby home and grew up in industrial schools which were rife with physical and sexual abuse.
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Jan 30th 2021, 10:30 AM
# final report
Children's Committee wants Chair of Mother and Baby Homes Commission to answer questions
Survivors will be asked to attend a separate hearing so they can raise any questions or concerns they have.
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Jan 27th 2021, 12:53 PM
# The North
Northern Ireland mother and baby homes report ‘reveals legacy of lifetime of trauma’
Ministers in Northern Ireland are to establish a ‘victim-centred’ independent investigation.
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Jan 26th 2021, 4:28 PM
Voices
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley: The story of Derek Leinster and the Bethany Home tells us we have more to learn
NUIG historian Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley says the recent Commission report into mother and baby homes needed to have a deeper look at Protestant institutions and the neglect of children like Derek.
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Jan 24th 2021, 8:30 AM
Voices
Opinion: The mother and baby homes Commission report misses the point on redress
Academic Máiréad Enright takes a forensic look at the Mother & Baby Home report and shares her concerns with its approach to redress.
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Jan 23rd 2021, 10:00 AM
# bessborough
Mother and baby home survivor sues State and order of nuns over alleged treatment at Bessborough
The action is understood to be one of the first brought following the publication of the final report by the commission of investigation earlier this month.
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Jan 22nd 2021, 5:02 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Should a 'national voluntary collection' be set up for survivors of mother and baby homes?
Senator Rónán Mullen said the money could be collected in addition to Church and State contributions to a redress scheme.
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Jan 21st 2021, 11:08 AM
Local councils to apologise for their involvement in Ireland's mother and baby homes, says minister
There were emotional contributions by some TDs in the Dáil today.
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Jan 20th 2021, 6:10 PM
# Redress
Archbishop says religious orders should not be 'scapegoated' for Mother and Baby Homes
Archbishop Eamon Martin said that the church was “expected to intervene” when society “banished” mothers.
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Jan 17th 2021, 2:31 PM
# Commission
'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted'
Adopted people and survivors of mother and baby homes say forced adoption was widespread, regardless of what the commission says.
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Jan 17th 2021, 8:00 AM
# Legal questions
'We can't just say it's too difficult': Could criminal investigations into Ireland's mother and baby homes happen?
There have been calls for investigations following the publication of a long-awaited report this week.
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Jan 17th 2021, 12:05 AM
# Adoption
'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30'
Susan Lohan says adopted people have for decades been fed a false narrative about their mothers in the hopes they won’t try to find them.
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Jan 16th 2021, 10:30 AM
# mother and baby home
Attorney General tells Taoiseach referendum not needed to grant adopted people birth cert access
Survivors have campaigned for access to their personal information for years.
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Jan 15th 2021, 5:00 PM
# Report
President Higgins says State 'must bear primary responsibility' for mother and baby homes
Michael D Higgins issued a statement on the report published this week.
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Jan 15th 2021, 8:22 AM
Opinion: It's finally time to admit that the Government's legal advice on adoption is wrong
David Kenny, Assistant Professor of Law at Trinity College, says the legal advice provided to Government in relation to rights of adopted children is flawed and a referendum on the matter is not needed.
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Jan 15th 2021, 12:10 AM
# philomena
Judi Dench pays tribute to Mother and Baby Homes survivor Philomena Lee
The Oscar-winner portrayed Lee in the 2013 film Philomena, which documented her 50-year search for her forcibly adopted son, Anthony.
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Jan 14th 2021, 8:00 PM
# hard copies
Mother and baby home survivors told they can request full paper copy of commission report if they want to read it
The department said no physical copies of the report were made available ahead of its online release.
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Jan 14th 2021, 2:54 PM
# Alice Litster
The 'redoubtable' public servant who first raised concerns about the mother and baby homes
Alice Litster was praised for her work that shined “a light on the failings of these institutions”.
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Jan 14th 2021, 6:30 AM
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