Catherine Corless, the historian who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal, has called on the Government to release the names of more than 900 children who died in Cork’s Bessborough Mother and Baby home.
Mon, 19 Aug, 2019
The Government’s controversial legislation to grant adopted people basic information and tracing rights breaches international human rights law and appears to “ignore EU law entirely”.
Fri, 14 Jun, 2019
Survivors of the Bethany Home have expressed their disappointment at the Government's unwillingness to commit a ‘fast track’ redress scheme for ageing survivors of the institution.
Thu, 30 May, 2019
It comes as a number of prominent independent politicians introduced a motion in the Dáil calling for an immediate inquiry and for immediate redress to be offered to survivors of Mother and Baby Homes.
Fri, 17 May, 2019
Children's minister Katherine Zappone warned the collaborative forum on mother and baby homes against leaking its final report saying it would "damage" its work and "undermine its integrity".
Thu, 09 May, 2019
When I read that skeletal remains, indicating an infant “on its left side”, lie in a structure that was probably designed for sewage, in the former grounds of the Mother and Baby home in Tuam, I feel sick.
Thu, 25 Apr, 2019
With the publication this week of the fifth interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, the disturbing spectre of the dead who were confined in those institutions of shame and segregation continues to haunt us.
Fri, 19 Apr, 2019
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission has said it is “very difficult to comprehend” how the Order which ran Bessborough has no information as to where over 800 children who died in their care are buried.
Thu, 18 Apr, 2019
The investigation into the mother and baby homes was expected to be a journey into history and past practices long since laid to rest.
Wed, 17 Apr, 2019
The Taoiseach says society needs to atone for the treatment of mothers and babies kept in institutions.
The bodies of some of the children who died in Mother and Baby Homes were used for anatomical studies.
Four years after the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, the focus of its investigation has clearly moved away from Tuam and onto other headline-generating institutions like Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.
Members of the Collaborative Forum on Mother and Baby Homes have expressed their disappointment at the Government's refusal to publish its full report.
Tue, 16 Apr, 2019
The Government’s planned legislation to allow people separated from their families through adoption to have access to their own records and histories has been slammed as “unfit for purpose” by a civil liberties group.
Fri, 07 Dec, 2018
Survivors of Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes in the North are being encouraged to come forward and share their experience with a working group investigating the institutions.
Fri, 12 Jan, 2018
The one-year delay in the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Inquiry has received a mixed welcome from survivors.
Thu, 07 Dec, 2017
Both religious orders and the State are failing to make any serious attempt to centralise, digitise and open up access to records of institutions, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.
Wed, 18 Oct, 2017
The McAleese inquiry into Magdalene laundries was informed in 2012 about “disturbing” infant death rates in excess of 50% at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
Mon, 22 May, 2017
The language and scope of the Mother and Baby Home Commission is questionable, says Conall Ó Fátharta
Thu, 13 Apr, 2017
Sat, 01 Oct, 2016
The Government has acceded to a request from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes for more time to complete its reports on foot of an unexpectedly large number of witnesses seeking to give testimony.
Thu, 28 Jul, 2016
People who lived or worked in 27 County Homes will not be able to give evidence to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.
Mon, 20 Jun, 2016
Justice for Magdalenes Research and Adoption Rights Alliance have launched a pro-bono legal initiative to assist witnesses drafting statements to the state commission of inquiry.
Thu, 16 Jun, 2016
Church of Ireland Bishop Paul Colton was so moved by the experience of a survivor of the Westbank orphanage that he has called for all Protestant homes to be included in the Mother and Baby Home investigation.
Tue, 13 Oct, 2015
Over 1,000 adopted people are languishing on waiting lists, seeking a service to help them discover their natural relatives.
Sat, 26 Sep, 2015
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission has refused to answer questions on how its Confidential Committee — set up to gather testimony from survivors — will work.
Thu, 06 Aug, 2015
A three-year investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be conducted following the revelations last year about the deaths of almost 800 children at the Tuam home, the Government confirmed today.
Fri, 09 Jan, 2015
The Department of Health has said it has "no information" on where, or in what institution, a previously undisclosed fifth vaccine trial on children here in the 1960s took place.
Thu, 04 Dec, 2014
May I take this opportunity of drawing to the Taoiseach’s attention, that given the recent deluge of information which is emerging with reference to the Mother and Baby Home at Tuam, Co. Galway, it is becoming imperative that the Government finally takes action to face up to this shocking episode in the history of the State.
Thu, 05 Jun, 2014
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