For every imprisoned woman in a mother and baby home, there is a corresponding man, and their voices, their guilt, their fault, their shame, and their torment is nowhere to be found.

One primal need of adopted people is access to their birth certificates. The very least they deserve is the application of real political will to expedite that process without further delay

Much has been made already of the basis for the conclusions of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, its choice of language and tone, and the discrepancy between the testimony and lived experience of the women and the report’s conclusions

Children Roderic O’Gorman's claim that sealing the testimonies of mother and baby home survivors was a data protection issue was wrong and illegal

"While physical pleasure was wrong, the tangible result of it, in the form of a new life, was worse and it's what took the brunt of the shame"

The Mother and baby homes report continues to pay lip service to women but fails to fully listen or bring about real equality

Government criticised for failure to commit to a referendum on acccess over adoption records

Numbers could be significantly higher than previously estimated

Michael D Higgins has said the Commission of Investigation’s report, published this week, reminds us of how "far short Ireland fell" from fulfilling the promise of our Republic,

While the mother and baby homes are now closed, some of the attitudes that went with them remain a stain on our national landscape, writes Alison O'Connor

The Department of Education has yet to make a decision on how to permanently memorialise the experiences of victims of childhood abuse, almost 12 years on from when it was first recommended by the Ryan Report

Legal experts say recommendation in Mother and Baby Home Report not necessary

Two planning applications have been lodged for  246 apartments on the former mother and baby home site

Mary O’Shea was born in Bessborough in 1935 and ‘adopted’ by a Cork couple in 1942, around the same time the infant mortality rate at the home reached 75%. Here she recounts her memories of an early childhood spent in a mother and baby home, her reaction to the State apology, and her anger over plans to build on the Blackrock site

Many pregnant single women that travelled to Britain found it was less welcoming than they had hoped

Julie Helen grapples with how disability was covered in the report and the fact that parents with disabilities are still having children removed from their care

PJ Haverty explains how his birth mother was warned by the nuns that if she ever found out where he was, she had to stay away or she would be in big trouble.

Amnesty International said in addition to the numbers who went through mother and baby homes, thousands more experienced Magdalene Laundries and other women-specific institutions

One issue that needs to be highlighted in the context of mother and baby homes is the question of fatherhood.

It is estimated that 15% of children born in Ireland's mother and baby homes were illegally adopted, but this week's report has left the issue — officially at least — hidden in plain sight

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said Mother & Baby Home survivors need to be able to access their personal data.

Taoiseach expresses 'deep concerns' babies may be buried on site

Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die in the care of the Bessborough Mother and  Baby Home, in 1994 

The 2002 indemnity deal for religious orders has cost the State more than €1.5bn before the publication of the mother and baby homes report

None of the mothers, some of whom were as young as 15, appear to have given consent for children to be involved in trials.

Government accused of "failing to listen" to survivors, who in many cases still cannot access their original birth certificates

Local and national authorities side-stepped responsibilities and caused confusion, allowing mother and baby homes to operate as they did

Some 923 babies associated with the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home died between 1922 and 1998 but many of their burial sites have not been identified

The development of the State’s mother and baby homes redress scheme needs an element of transparency to avoid repeating past mistakes that have “left a trail of anger and bitterness” amongst survivors.

Michéal Martin said the Government 'is determined to act on all the recommendations of the report and to deliver the legislative change necessary to at least start to heal the wounds that endure'

Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister has vowed to do “whatever is required” to secure justice for survivors of mother and baby homes.

Taoiseach's apology where he noted all of society was to blame described as a 'cop-out'

Treated as disposable in both life and death, these children deserve an identity

Asked whether criminal investigations and charges could be brought upon priests and nuns who operated the institutions, the Bishop said 'I think so. Yes.'

In light of the findings of yesterday's Report of Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, addressed the Dail today.

The Government has committed to a redress scheme following the publication of the final report of the Mother and Baby Home Commission.

Noelle Brown, who was born in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, has said that there were “10 glaring inaccuracies” in her testimony which was included in the report published on Tuesday.

"On behalf of the Government, the State and its citizens, I apologise for the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers and their children who ended up in a Mother and Baby Home or a County Home."

Bon Secours Sisters issue apology in aftermath of Commission report

Roderic O'Gorman said he hopes to bring proposals around a redress scheme to Cabinet by April 30.

On Wednesday’s front page, the Irish Examiner published the names of the children who died in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home from 1992 to 1994

Historian and campaigner Catherine Corless has said that Mother and Baby Home survivors were very hurt by Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s comments on Tuesday.

The publication of the final report Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes shines a light into a dark corner of 20th-century Ireland.

Mother and baby home survivors have criticised the Commission of Investigation's final report as incomplete, a cop-out, and worse.

Mother and baby homes were supposed to provide refuge but the women, some of whom were victims of rape, were treated like dangerous wild animals

The commission of investigation found around 9,000 children died in mother and baby homes —about 15% of all the children who passed through their doors.

The commission found a high rate of infant mortality at 18 facilities investigated, including a high mortality rate at the Cork Bessborough facility in 1943, where 75% of children died before their first birthday.

No religious order, no matter how powerful or vicious, could hold hostage and abuse, vulnerable women, in the ways this report describes without the complicity of swathes of society. 

Taoiseach struck by absence of basic kindness

The highest rate of infant mortality recorded in a mother and baby home was Bessborough in 1943 when 75% of children died before their first birthday