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Tuesday 28 March 2023 Dublin: 8°C

# Tuam

This year
2023
# Excavation
Tuam mother and baby home site will finally be excavated after Director is appointed next month
Relatives have welcomed the news but said there can be no further delays.
Last year
2022
# Tuam
Man, 20s, dies in single-vehicle crash in Co Galway
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the incident.
# redacted lives
'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."
# Podcast
Redacted Lives: Final episode explores redress and plans to excavate Tuam mother and baby home site
The final episode in the series features an interview with Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman.
In the sixth and final episode in the series, A Living Wound, we hear from Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman
Also in this episode, survivors explain why they disagree with the Government’s approach to redress and other issues
As Maria Arbuckle said: "“Five grand isn’t going to change my life. My son being taken off me changed my life."
# Podcast
Redacted Lives: Listen to the third episode of our new documentary series here
In 1975, two children looked under a slab of concrete and saw what appeared to be bones. Decades later, their accidental discovery led to a mass grave being uncovered on the grounds of a former mother and baby home.
# Excavation
Recruitment launched for Director who will oversee excavation of Tuam mother and baby home site
The recovery of remains at the site is expected to begin early next year.
# Tuam
Redacted Lives: How boys robbing apples, and a local historian, uncovered a dark part of Irish history
The third episode of our new documentary series explores Tuam mother and baby home.
The third episode of our new documentary series explores Tuam mother and baby home
In 1975, two children hiding after being caught robbing apples uncovered what appeared to be piles of tiny bones
Decades later, their discovery was researched by a woman named Catherine Corless - who had no idea of the chain of events she would set into motion
# project infant
'These were babies, not numbers': New website documents deaths in mother and baby homes
Project Infant has been created by student Daniel Loftus.
# operation tara
Man arrested after gardaí seize €60,000 worth of cocaine in Tuam
Gardaí carried out a search under warrant at a domestic residence in Tuam yesterday.
# mother and baby homes
'This isn't justice': Relatives criticise fact Bessborough site won't be excavated like Tuam
The burial place of over 850 children who died in Bessborough mother and baby home, or shortly after being transferred to hospital from there, remains unknown.
# mother and baby home
Campaigner criticises Government’s exhumation plans at Tuam mother and baby site
Anna Corrigan said she ‘fears’ that by focusing on the Co Galway site, the Government will ‘ignore’ other mother and baby institutions.
THE MORNING LEAD
'Two babies from one family, gone': Tusla unable to locate records despite 'extensive' search
A report by
Órla Ryan
Tuam survivor Peter Mulryan says it’s “awful” that records for his older sister, Bridget, cannot be found.
Tuam survivor Peter Mulryan says it's "awful" that records for his older sister cannot be found, Órla Ryan reports
Peter believes there is a chance Bridget may have been incorrectly listed as dead, before being adopted
Records related to St Gerard's were given to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in 2017
'Where is she?': Survivor of Tuam home discovers he has a second sister with no burial record
THE MORNING LEAD
'Where is she?': Survivor of Tuam home discovers he has a second sister with no burial record
A report by
Órla Ryan
Peter Mulryan is going public with his search for information about a second sister, Bridget, who passed through St Gerard’s in Dublin.
# Redress
Independent office to lead excavation of Tuam Mother and Baby Home site
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman proposed the office be set up following the signing into law of the Institutional Burials Act.
# catherine corless
Tuam mother and baby home site to be excavated after President signs Burials Bill into law
The legislation will also allow for the excavation and reburial of remains at the sites of other former institutions.
# burials bill
Long-awaited bill passed to allow excavation of remains found in Tuam
The legislation allows the children’s remains found at the site to be excavated, recovered, and finally given a formal burial.
# Garda Appeal
Gardaí appealing for witnesses following collision in Tuam yesterday
A male in his late teens was taken to University Hospital Galway to be treated for his injuries
# Coroner
Burials Bill: New law will allow for Tuam mother and baby home and other sites to be excavated
The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the legislation.
The legislation will allow the excavation, recovery and analysis of remains at the site of the former mother and baby institutions
The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the Bill
Catherine Corless said today is "a good day", Órla Ryan reports
Burials Bill will be published today, paving the way for Tuam site to finally be excavated
'I'll protest until I die': Call for 'forgotten' boarded out children to be given redress
# Cabinet
Burials Bill will be published today, paving the way for Tuam site to finally be excavated
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman will bring the draft legislation to Cabinet this morning.
# Tuam
Long-awaited Burials Bill to be published next week
If the legislation passes in the coming months, the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam may finally be excavated.
All time
# burials bill
Tuam site may finally be excavated in 2022 - five years after 'significant' human remains found
The long-awaited Burials Bill and the Birth Information and Tracing Bill are expected to be published in the next two months.
The site of the former mother and baby home may be excavated five years after a "significant" quantity of human remains were found
Survivors, relatives and archaeologists have called for the Tuam site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports
The long-awaited Burials Bill and the Birth Information and Tracing Bill are expected to be published in the next two months
'We've been totally vindicated': State admits rights of Mother & Baby Home survivors were breached
Over 30 experts ask O'Gorman to change redress scheme so it considers 'impact of early trauma'
# Galway
Gardaí charge eight people in connection to 'violent disorder' at a funeral
The arrests relate to an outbreak of violence at a funeral in Tuam, Co Galway in September.
# Tuam
UN experts warn Burials Bill may 'create obstacles' to examining deaths at Mother & Baby Homes
The proposed legislation raises “serious concerns in relation to the State’s compliance with its international legal obligations”, the groups note.
# the missing children
'Four years on and still no action': Call for Tuam mother and baby home site to be excavated
A test excavation found a “significant” quantity of human remains, but a full excavation has still not happened – to the frustration of survivors and archaeologists.
Survivors, relatives and archaeologists are calling for the site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports
They want DNA testing carried out to identify the remains of the children buried in Tuam
A new documentary explores the search for the truth about what happened to those who disappeared
Illegal adoptees 'forced to break the law' by using their falsified birth certificates
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
# Tuam
One arrested and seven injured after violent altercation at Galway graveyard
Around 30 gardaí responded to the scene in Tuam.
# Galway
Man (40s) rushed to Beaumont hospital after assault in Tuam
The man was seriously injured during the incident.
# 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
Survivors and politicians express anger over Mother and Baby Home event
'Women would disappear and no one said anything': Breaking the silence on mother and baby homes
# identification of remains
DNA testing for Mother and Baby Home sites could include 'aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews'
The minister has discussed plans for “very significant DNA-based identification process”.
# Galway
Army bomb disposal make safe a viable explosive device found in Tuam
Gardaí received the call shortly after 8am and have evacuated a number of people from their homes.
# burials bill
Bessborough survivor says more women 'will die not knowing if their child is rotting in a septic tank'
The Children’s Committee today discussed legislation that would allow exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby institutions.
# burials bill
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
One Tuam survivor told the Oireachtas Children’s Committee he wants to know if his sister is buried at the site, or still alive.
Inquests must be carried out into all deaths at mother and baby homes, Oireachtas told
One Tuam survivor wants to know if his sister is buried at the site, or still alive
Ireland 'must meet its domestic and international human rights obligations'
'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes
# Tuam
Galway County Council 'profoundly sorry' for failing those at Tuam mother and baby home
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation released a report on its five-year investigation into the homes earlier this month.
# Tuam
'We did not live up to our Christianity': Bon Secours apologises for Tuam mother and baby home
Historian Catherine Corless said she is grateful for the “honest” statement.
# Tuam
Catherine Corless: Government efforts to help mother and baby homes survivors 'half-hearted'
The final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was published yesterday.
# final report
Premature births and malnutrition: how infant mortality in one home rose to 900% of national rates
The findings were revealed in the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission today.
# 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.
# Mary Harney
'Accept responsibility and we might accept your apology': Survivors brace themselves for mother and baby home report
The long-awaited report will be published today – and survivors want “urgent” action on foot of it.
# bessborough
How a 'surprising' lack of burial records impacted the work of the mother and baby home commission
Ahead of the commission’s final report being published tomorrow, we’re taking a look back at its interim reports.
# 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.
# national archive
'The country is sick of things being brushed under the carpet': What could a national archive on abuse look like?
Survivors want Ireland to face up to its past – but there are different views on the best way to do this.
Taoiseach not anticipating 'obstacles or barriers' to publishing Mother and Baby Home report
Q&A: Why was the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes set up and what did it examine?