# Survivors

Last month

December 2022

'Five grand can't give me my son back': Mother and Baby Home survivors hit out at redress plans

The final episode of Redacted Lives explores redress and plans to finally excavate the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam.

The final episode of Redacted Lives explores redress and plans to finally excavate the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam

Survivors believe State could face further legal action if so many people remain excluded from redress scheme, Órla Ryan reports

Maria Arbuckle says: "Five grand isn't going to change my life. My son being taken off me changed my life."

27.1k

Dec 18th 2022, 12:10 AM

Last year

2022

Voices

Tric Kearney: 'It was time to say I have more than survived George Gibney'

Author Tric Kearney describes how revisiting painful, 25-year-old memories in a popular podcast finally gave her and other survivors a voice.

25.7k

Apr 10th 2022, 9:13 PM

All time

# compensation

'Can you put a price on trauma?': Redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes ready

The Cabinet is set to sign off on the details of a long-awaited redress scheme later today.

5.7k

Nov 16th 2021, 6:00 AM

# Domestic Violence

Domestic violence survivors granted easier access to rent supplement on a permanent basis

The measure will be reviewed after three months to assess the applicant’s situation.

6.6k

Nov 11th 2021, 1:35 PM

# Survivors

'The correct thing to do': Mother and Baby Homes Commission members urged to appear before Oireachtas committee

Tánaiste Leo Vardakar said the authors of the report should come before the Oireachtas “without delay”.

14.4k

Updated Jun 3rd 2021, 4:45 PM

# Mary Daly

'Yet another blow to survivors': Women get few answers as Commissioner defends report

A number of Mother and Baby Home survivors finally got to hear from a Commissioner today – it did not go to plan.

Commissioner defends Mother and Baby Home report in first public comments, saying 'ultra legal' approach was needed

'My view is we've done a job and, basically, let's let others go and take it further,' Professor Mary Daly said

The evidence given by hundreds of survivors to the Confidential Committee was essentially discounted, Órla Ryan writes

45.6k

Jun 2nd 2021, 9:51 PM

# Concert

'Women would disappear and no one said anything': Breaking the silence on mother and baby homes

Survivors, adoptees and Christy Moore will perform in an event at the National Concert Hall tonight.

17.5k

May 29th 2021, 6:30 AM

# OAK Consulting

Department says consulting firm was hired due to 'urgency' in setting up mother and baby home redress scheme

The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.

16.8k

Mar 17th 2021, 9:30 AM

# 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.

26.4k

Updated Jan 31st 2021, 1:58 PM

# 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.

12.2k

Jan 27th 2021, 12:53 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.

11.8k

Jan 14th 2021, 2:54 PM

# State apology

'I apologise for the profound generational wrong': Taoiseach gives landmark apology to survivors of mother and baby homes

About 9,000 children died in the 18 homes under investigation.

The full report from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation was released yesterday.

The Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Children's Minister issued statements.

"The State failed you, the mothers and children in these homes," Micheál Martin said.

27.8k

Jan 13th 2021, 1:39 PM

# final report

5-year investigation finds at least 9,000 children died in Ireland's mother and baby homes

Infant human remains were located during an excavation at Sean Ross mother and baby home, but appear to have been buried in coffins, unlike at Tuam.

Document details the experiences of women and children who lived in 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes.

Commission recommends redress, services such as counselling and enhanced medical cards.

Taoiseach to give State apology over mother and baby homes in the Dáil tomorrow.

45.3k

100

Jan 12th 2021, 3:00 PM

# Roderic O'Gorman

Final report of Commission into Mother and Baby Homes to be published in January

The report will be published on the week of 11 January, Minister Roderic O’Gorman has confirmed.

10.0k

Updated Dec 3rd 2020, 11:52 AM

# Cabinet Meeting

Government to set up archive of records related to institutional trauma in 20th century

The government released a statement about the Mother and Baby Homes this evening.

25.6k

Updated Oct 28th 2020, 8:11 PM

Voices

Opinion: 'I was born with my organs outside my body and given the last rites but now I have two children of my own'

When I was born I weighed just 3lbs 3oz and was expected to die. I survived but faced persistent bullying about my condition well into adulthood, writes Edwina Wrenn.

37.1k

Apr 12th 2019, 7:00 AM

# Waterford

Tusla has a file from 1980s on Bill Kenneally, says abuse survivor

The 20-page file was written in the 1980s, and was brought to the attention of survivors through an FOI request.

33.2k

Oct 2nd 2018, 8:11 AM

# Disaster

Death toll in horrific Indonesia tsunami is now at least 832 and is expected to rise

The death toll is expected to worsen considerably as so many regions have yet to be heard from in the aftermath of the quake.

12.9k

Sep 30th 2018, 8:11 AM

# pope francis

Pope compared cover up in Church to 'sh*t' in private meeting, abuse survivors say

The pope met a group of eight survivors this evening.

75.3k

118

Aug 25th 2018, 9:10 PM

# Survivors

Progress on Bill Kenneally inquiry as survivors meet Justice Minister

The Commission of Investigation could start as early as this summer.

6.2k

Apr 7th 2018, 6:59 AM

# Taiwan

'We could hear his phone ringing' - Taiwanese rescuers brave leaning building collapse amid quake aftershocks

At least nine people died in Tuesday’s earthquake in the popular tourist city of Hualien.

8.1k

Feb 8th 2018, 7:19 AM

# New Zealand

Seven survivors from missing ferry found drifting in a dinghy on the Pacific Ocean

Six adults and a baby were on board the dinghy.

25.6k

Jan 28th 2018, 5:30 PM

# Miryang

Witnesses describe mass panic as dozens killed in huge hospital blaze in South Korea

More than 130 were hurt in the fire, the country’s worst for 15 years.

13.5k

Jan 26th 2018, 9:16 PM

# Survivors

'Now, I can tell my stories. I've been silenced my whole life': Tuam survivors network launches

Survivor Peter Mulryan was born in the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway and lived in the institute for four and half years.

13.9k

Dec 16th 2017, 7:00 AM

# Closure

Bravery medals would bring 'final closure' for Jadotville survivors

While families welcomed the recent awarding of a unit citation and Bonn Jadotville medal, it is hoped eight of the men will be specifically awarded for their bravery.

10.4k

Dec 9th 2017, 12:05 AM

# Kermanshah

Survivors of Iran quake that killed more than 400 spend second night in the open air

Iran is observing a day of national mourning for victims of earthquake which killed more than 400 people on Sunday.

5.6k

Nov 14th 2017, 7:17 AM

# las ramblas

'She thought I was dead': Irish survivor of Barcelona attack speaks out

An Irish-Filipino family were caught up in the Barcelona terror attack last week.

20.4k

Aug 21st 2017, 5:03 PM

# Abuse

'We wanted to be loved': Institutional abuse survivors take their fight for justice to the UN

A report launched today criticises the State’s treatment of victims, which it says has caused further trauma.

12.0k

Jul 4th 2017, 6:00 PM

Voices

'I'm a former child resident of a mother and baby home. We want truth and justice'

“Institutional Ireland” is still failing survivors of residential institutions, writes Conrad Bryan.

1.4k

May 27th 2017, 9:30 AM

# Tragic

At least 254 dead, including 43 children, as toll from Colombian horror mudslide continues to climb

The deadly landslide, which struck late on Friday evening, resulted from days of heavy rains.

8.1k

Apr 3rd 2017, 7:09 AM

# Survivors

New Zealand beached whale crisis 'over' say rescuers

Many volunteers gathered on the shoreline broke down in tears on hearing the latest strandings appeared to be over.

10.4k

Feb 12th 2017, 7:18 AM

# commemoration

President Higgins calls for fight against politics of fear and hatred while marking Holocaust Memorial

Minister Flanagan said we must be vigilant in standing against fundamentalist ideologies.

7.2k

Jan 29th 2017, 7:00 AM

# not giving up

Hopes for new group of survivors at Italian mountain hotel following avalanche

More than 25 people are believed to have been staying at the hotel when it was hit.

27.2k

Jan 20th 2017, 4:05 PM

# the Mediterranean

29 migrants die in toxic pool of fuel and seawater off coast of Libya

The horrific discovery was made yesterday by a Doctors without Borders (MSF) rescue ship.

11.3k

Oct 26th 2016, 8:27 PM

# Disaster

Desperate search for survivors as Ecuador earthquake death toll passes 400

The earthquake is the biggest tragedy of its kind in Ecuador in 67 years.

8.7k

Apr 19th 2016, 10:50 AM

# get yourself checked

"I was faced with the prospect of my daughter - who was 6 at the time - going to my funeral"

November is prostate cancer awareness month. We get some stories from the frontline of the battle against cancer.

26.5k

Nov 14th 2015, 9:45 PM

# temporary

Accommodation for Carrickmines survivors found - but NOT in Rockville Drive

They will be housed in a car park adjacent to Ballyogan Works Depot.

26.0k

139

Oct 21st 2015, 5:09 PM

# Survivors

"Ireland saw her as a fallen woman - but she was my mother"

Dublin councillor Francis Timmons, who grew up in a mother and baby home in the 1970s, is calling for James Reilly to take a look at redress schemes for survivors.

21.8k

Sep 25th 2015, 6:01 AM