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# Mother and Baby

HSE pressures maternity hospitals to follow guidelines and allow partners attend

In a letter, Dr Colm Henry suggests that the guidance has not been implemented by some hospitals.

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May 7th 2021, 1:10 PM

# Mother and Baby

UN asked to request that Irish govt sets up independent investigation into Mother and Baby Homes

The Irish Council of Civil Liberties has written a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur.

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Mar 24th 2021, 8:29 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

# 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

# Criticism

Destruction of Mother and Baby Home tapes represents 'an imbalance of power', Dáil hears

Some survivors have expressed anger at the destruction of the audio testimony recordings.

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Feb 17th 2021, 7:17 PM

Voices

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

# equality minister

Dáil passes the Government's Mother and Baby Homes Bill

Opposition TDs had drafted amendments based on the requests of survivors and human rights experts.

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# Tragedy

Mother of newborn baby found dead in Cork maternity hospital

An investigation is underway and the cause of death is currently unknown.

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Mar 26th 2019, 12:37 PM

# budget 2019

Parents to get an extra two weeks' paid parental leave from next year

The measure will be introduced from November 2019.

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Oct 9th 2018, 1:53 PM

# pain relief

Changing the drug used during labour could halve the number of women needing an epidural

Pethidine is the most widely used drug but new research suggests remifentanil may work better.

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Aug 14th 2018, 6:01 AM

# Mother and Baby

Husband whose pregnant wife died during Holles Street surgery settles damages case

Malak Thawley died in 2016 during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.

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Jan 16th 2018, 2:50 PM

# Mix-up

An Austrian hospital gave parents the wrong babies and nobody knew for nearly 30 years

Doris Gruenwald only found out after she took a DNA test.

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Jun 12th 2017, 2:20 PM

# religious orders

Hospitals still owned by the Catholic Church should be handed over to the State, says Micheál Martin

He also described what happened to mother and baby home survivors as” unchristian cruelty”.

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Mar 8th 2017, 3:58 PM

# state files

Mother and baby homes believed to give Irish women 'every chance of keeping their secret'

A report into ‘destitute Irish girls’ investigated the problem of unmarried pregnant women travelling to England.

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Mar 4th 2017, 10:00 PM

# Mass Grave

Remains of young children and babies found in sewage chambers at Tuam mother and baby home

In a statement, the Commission said it is “shocked by the discovery” and its investigation is continuing.

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Mar 3rd 2017, 11:26 AM

# Mother and Baby

'He hung on to see his mummy' - Mum calls for anomaly scans after losing her newborn baby

Diane Magee gave birth to baby Christopher fifteen months ago but her child died soon afterwards.

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Jan 31st 2017, 9:41 PM

# Biological clock

30.3 years: That's the average age of Irish women having their first child

The average is going up.

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Mar 23rd 2015, 5:53 PM

# Unmarried Mothers

'Deeply wrong': Labour TD abstains from vote on mother and baby homes inquiry

Labour TD Anne Ferris abstained from the vote criticising the lack of objectivity of the investigation.

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Jan 29th 2015, 9:15 AM

# Redress

Mother-and-baby home survivors want fully inclusive inquiry into what happened to them

It is anticipated the terms of reference of the Commission of Inquiry will be discussed by Cabinet next week.

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Dec 12th 2014, 4:40 PM

# tuam babies

Should the mother-and-baby homes inquiry include orphanages?

James Reilly isn’t so sure.

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Nov 15th 2014, 7:45 AM

# tuam babies

"It's so important to get this inquiry right"

Minister James Reilly hopes to bring the terms of reference to Cabinet in the near future.

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Nov 13th 2014, 2:15 PM

# Mother and Baby

Supreme Court says only the birth mother - not genetic mother - can appear on birth cert

The State mother has insisted that only the birth mother can be on the birth cert.

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Nov 7th 2014, 10:48 AM

# Inquiry

Exclusion of institutions from inquiry concerning to mother-and-baby groups

Groups representing mothers and their children question why some institutions may not be included.

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Jul 16th 2014, 8:14 PM

# Mother and Baby

Judge Yvonne Murphy appointed chair of mother-and-baby home inquiry

Minister James Reilly also published a report examining what the government knew about the homes.

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Jul 16th 2014, 2:47 PM

# mother and baby home

Death rate of babies at Tuam mother and baby home was double the rate of other homes

The returns from local authorities, disqualifying Dublin, shows that 17% of babies under the age of one died in registered maternity homes that year.

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Jul 14th 2014, 7:00 AM

# new boss

Mother-and-baby home survivors concerned over ministerial switch-around

James Reilly has taken over at the Department of Children — just days before the establishment of the large-scale inquiry into mother-and-baby homes.

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Jul 13th 2014, 7:15 AM

Voices

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

# the commission

Who will chair the mother-and-baby inquiry? The Minister's been given a list of candidates

The Commission of Investigation into the State’s network of mother-and-baby homes is expected to be set up before the Oireachtas summer recess.

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Jul 10th 2014, 4:12 PM

# the commission

International judge should chair mother-and-baby investigation, survivors say

Groups representing survivors of the institutions are meeting with Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan today.

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Jul 10th 2014, 7:45 AM

Voices

Opinion: It may seem heartless, but we shouldn't fund an inquiry into religious-run homes

I shudder to imagine what those mothers and their beautiful babies went through. But we need to ask the difficult question: is this the correct use of funds that children living today so badly need?

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Jul 8th 2014, 7:30 PM

# bessborough

Handover of 25,000 mother-and-baby files indicates "scale and breadth" of investigation

Some 25,000 files have been handed over by the Sacred Heart Adoption Society to the Cork offices of Government agency ‘TUSLA’.

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Jul 1st 2014, 2:49 PM

# the commission

Want a say on the mother-and-baby inquiry? Midday today is the deadline...

Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan is hoping to have the terms for the wide-ranging Commission of Investigation set up before the Dáil summer recess…

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Jun 30th 2014, 6:45 AM

# a first mother's story

'There's a nurse leaving the room with my baby... I said to my sister “where’s she gone?”....'

After her first harrowing ordeal, Kathy McMahon was determined to keep her child the SECOND TIME she was sent to a mother-and-baby home…

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Jun 29th 2014, 7:50 PM

# Mother and Baby

Have you ever kept a pregnancy hidden? You're not alone

And TCD’s School of Nursing and Midwifery wants to hear from women who have.

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Jun 24th 2014, 11:11 AM

# Investigation

Boyd Barrett: 'I was born in a mother-and-baby scheme. I'm one of the lucky ones'

Sinn Féin wants the Commission of Investigation to be in place before the summer recess.

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Jun 11th 2014, 10:13 PM

# talk to us

"We're the ones who lived this our whole lives": Mother-and-baby home residents have some advice for the Government

Groups representing children born in the homes and women who gave birth in the institutions have been setting out their priorities for the investigation.

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Jun 11th 2014, 7:15 PM

# News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about bugging at GSOC offices, mother and baby homes and cigarette packaging.

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Jun 10th 2014, 10:50 PM

# Mother and Baby

Bishops: We are reminded of a time when unmarried mothers were rejected by Church

They encouraged all those who ran these homes to gather and offer up any documents that might be of assistance.

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Jun 10th 2014, 7:48 PM

# Reaction

'Time to shed light on another dark period': Broad welcome for mother-and-baby investigation

Campaign groups have broadly welcomed this afternoon’s developments. There was also an observation that the matter “could have been dealt with decades ago”.

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Jun 10th 2014, 4:55 PM

# Mother and Baby

Taoiseach: If we don't do this properly, Ireland's soul will lie "in an unmarked grave"

Enda Kenny said the Government would consult with all opposition parties, other relevant groups and historians as it began its investigation into mother-and-baby homes.

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Jun 10th 2014, 4:28 PM