#Mother and Baby Homes

#Mother and Baby Homes

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<p>How much should trauma cost? How much for an identity? A family? A sense of belonging? How much should the State pay for children who were stolen? The Government has decided, in some cases, nothing.</p>

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Aoife Moore: Stolen from their mothers' arms yet the State will pay them nothing

Hundreds, if not thousands of people across Ireland wake up every day with no idea whose arms they were taken from in their first moments on earth, and the Government, keen to remind us they really don't understand what these people have been through, has decided to pay them nothing

<p>Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus Cullinan, wrote a letter to Labour leader Alan Kelly over comments made by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin at the Labour Party conference earlier this month.</p>

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Bishop of Waterford accuses Labour TD of 'almost inciting hatred' on schools patronage issue

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said Catholic patronage should be removed from schools in light of the mother and baby homes and other church scandals

<p>Children's Minister Roderick O'Gorman said the Government will be bringing forward legislation in the new year to support the establishment of a payment scheme.</p>

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Minister will take 'specific proposals' on redress bill in 2022

Roderic O'Gorman defended the decision to block children who spent less than six months in mother and baby homes from the redress scheme

Bessborough campaigners to be honoured for 'bravery and determination'

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Bessborough campaigners to be honoured for 'bravery and determination'

Childhood trauma experts critical of mother and baby home redress scheme

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Childhood trauma experts critical of mother and baby home redress scheme

No breach of fair procedure in relation to mother and baby homes report, High Court told

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No breach of fair procedure in relation to mother and baby homes report, High Court told

FILE PHOTO Philomena Lee has called for Mother and Baby Homes survivors to be paid compensation, ahead of the publication of the

Many Mother and Baby home report findings 'at odds' with Philomena Lee testimony, court told

Mary Harney said that she was made to cut the lawn of the Bessborough mother and baby home with a pair of scissors

Wed, 17 Nov, 2021

Micheál Martin defends mother and baby homes redress scheme

Micheál Martin defends mother and baby homes redress scheme

Government has 'gone well beyond the recommendations of the commission in respect of the payment scheme', Taoiseach tells Dáil

Wed, 17 Nov, 2021

FILE PHOTO Philomena Lee has called for Mother and Baby Homes survivors to be paid compensation, ahead of the publication of the

Legal challenges against the mother and baby homes report begin

Philomena Lee’s affidavit “made it clear” that she did not receive pain relief or any form of medical care when giving birth

Wed, 17 Nov, 2021

Roderic O'Gorman apologises for claiming children 'wouldn't remember' mother and baby home ordeals

Roderic O'Gorman apologises for claiming children 'wouldn't remember' mother and baby home ordeals

Children who were resident for less than six months in mother and baby homes will not be able to apply for any redress

Wed, 17 Nov, 2021

Mother and baby home redress scheme described as 'paltry and insulting'

Mother and baby home redress scheme described as 'paltry and insulting'

Survivors have hit out at the fact that payments will not be issued until late 2022 and that children who spent less than six months in a home have been completely left out

Wed, 17 Nov, 2021

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Q&A: Who will qualify for mother and baby homes redress scheme?

Details have been revealed of redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, after it was approved by Cabinet on Tuesday

Tue, 16 Nov, 2021

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Mother & Baby Homes: €800m redress scheme for 34,000 survivors announced

The scheme, which will include an enhanced medical card and two types of financial payment, will not open until late next year

Tue, 16 Nov, 2021

Elaine Loughlin: For once, let’s put rights and respect for survivors at the centre of redress

Elaine Loughlin: For once, let’s put rights and respect for survivors at the centre of redress

Ireland's litany of human rights abuses have left survivors retraumatised by poor official responses: The mother and baby homes redress scheme simply must be done differently

Tue, 16 Nov, 2021

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Fergus Finlay: Mother and baby homes redress scheme must be run by women for women

Ireland has another national debt, to the victims and survivors of mother and baby homes — and it is women who should lead the scheme to right those wrongs

Tue, 16 Nov, 2021

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Redress payments for baby home survivors urged in North

Executive has accepted all recommendations from an expert panel on investigating the mistreatment of women and children in mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries

Mon, 15 Nov, 2021

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Government to approve €800m redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes

Compensation and medical cards among the measures in scheme which is expected to go further than that recommended by the commission of enquiry

Sat, 13 Nov, 2021

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Cabinet to discuss redress scheme for survivors of Mother and baby homes

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman writes to survivors confirming a detailed and costed proposal for the delayed compensation scheme has been finalised

Fri, 12 Nov, 2021

Identification of remains at Tuam mother and baby home 'could take years'

Identification of remains at Tuam mother and baby home 'could take years'

Dr René Gapert of Human Remains Services Ireland said the process is not as simple as exhuming the remains and identifying them with DNA

Wed, 10 Nov, 2021

Mother and baby home legislation will 'negatively impact' on right to justice and truth, UN tells Government

Mother and baby home legislation will 'negatively impact' on right to justice and truth, UN tells Government

Eight UN bodies have raised serious concerns around a redress scheme for survivors and are critical of how the Government plans to address the exhumation of babies at the Tuam site

Wed, 10 Nov, 2021

Taoiseach's pledge on delayed mother and baby home redress 'hard to believe'

Taoiseach's pledge on delayed mother and baby home redress 'hard to believe'

The Dáil heard that survivors are becoming 'anxious, worried, and vulnerable with each passing day'

Tue, 09 Nov, 2021

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Fears mother and baby home archive could be hacked, damaged or lost

Tusla warned the highly sensitive records were held using 'legacy' technology, which heightened the risk of accidental or unlawful destruction, loss of records, alteration of files, or unauthorised disclosure

Thu, 04 Nov, 2021

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'Modest' childcare budget initiatives will save some families €885 a year

Funding for the early learning and childcare sectors will reach €716m next year, Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman has said

Wed, 13 Oct, 2021

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Over 2,000 applications for NI historical institutional abuse redress scheme

First Minister Paul Givan revealed during question time in the Assembly that €28m has been paid out in redress

Mon, 11 Oct, 2021

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Michelle O’Neill to push for public inquiry into mother and baby homes

The Deputy First Minister said that she accepted all of the recommendations of an expert panel into mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

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Whistleblower law is silent on areas crying out for reform

'This isn’t a left versus right issue. It’s a contest between those who believe democracy needs dissent, and those who are dissenting from a very democratic principle,' writes Mairéad Farrell

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

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Public inquiry must address ‘great scandal’ of NI mother and baby homes

The “great scandal” of mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland must be investigated by a public inquiry, an independent panel has recommended.

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

Son only found out mother was inside NI Magdalene Laundry when she died

Son only found out mother was inside NI Magdalene Laundry when she died

The unmarried mother of four spent 25 years in the Sisters of the Good Shepherd laundry in Derry until her death there in 1981

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

Children's Minister urges local authorities to protect mother and baby home burial sites from development

Children's Minister urges local authorities to protect mother and baby home burial sites from development

Roderic O'Gorman says his priority is to ensure that lands such as Bessborough in Cork city, where over 900 infants born at or associated with the site died, are sensitively treated

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

FILE PHOTO Philomena Lee has called for Mother and Baby Homes survivors to be paid compensation, ahead of the publication of the

Human rights body wants to make submissions in lead cases over mother and baby homes report

The lead cases are by retired nurse Philomena Lee, 88, who lives in England, and by Galway-based Mary Harney, 72, both former residents of mother and baby homes

Mon, 04 Oct, 2021

DENIS SCANNELL

More than 460 apartments now planned for Bessborough mother and baby home site

Details of a second large residential project on the Bessborough estate in Cork have emerged

Wed, 29 Sep, 2021

Top civil servant 'not optimistic' about finding who leaked mother and baby homes report

Top civil servant 'not optimistic' about finding who leaked mother and baby homes report

Martin Fraser was before the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee to explain when Katherine Zappone’s name was communicated to the Department of the Taoiseach for appointment as UN special envoy

Wed, 29 Sep, 2021

DENIS SCANNELL

Developers target another section of Bessborough mother and baby home site

After previous plans were rejected, developers are now hoping to build 184 apartments and a creche on a different part of the controversial site.

Sun, 26 Sep, 2021

Taoiseach: Redress scheme for mother and baby homes survivors to open early next year

Taoiseach: Redress scheme for mother and baby homes survivors to open early next year

Investigation into how the mother and baby home commission's final report was leaked in January to a newspaper is still under way

Wed, 15 Sep, 2021

Mother and baby home vaccine trial subjects want answers

Mother and baby home vaccine trial subjects want answers

The lads were fine until they got vaccinated. This was what a nun told Paul Lynch's adoptive mother Doreen when they were very young.

Thu, 02 Sep, 2021

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

GSK publishes vaccine trial records for mother and baby homes

The company said it was offering the service in response to issues raised following the publication of the Commission of Investigation’s report

Wed, 01 Sep, 2021

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Irish Examiner: Credibility issue on mother and baby homes

The recent disappointment around the report on mother and baby homes report, when it was revealed that evidence offered by a significant number of witnesses was disregarded as it did not meet a "legal standard", was the latest in a litany of events ...

Tue, 10 Aug, 2021

Monday TV Tips: I remember crying, all my tears were dropping on his face as I was feeding him — Long Lost Family

Monday TV Tips: I remember crying, all my tears were dropping on his face as I was feeding him - Long Lost Family

Plus: Hi-de-Hi but don't be twisting my melon man — Celebrity Masterchefs Bez and Su Pollard

Mon, 09 Aug, 2021

Locked away: Thousands of 'unwanted' children failed by foundling hospitals

Locked away: Thousands of 'unwanted' children failed by foundling hospitals

Between 1728–1828, the foundling hospital served the purpose of removing unwanted infants from the view of Irish society.

Sun, 08 Aug, 2021

Tuam survivor criticises officials attending Zappone bash days after cancelled meeting

Tuam survivor criticises officials attending Zappone bash days after cancelled meeting

Tuam survivors have criticised officials in the Department of Children for attending a party for former minister Katherine Zappone a week after cancelling a meeting to discuss their plight.

Thu, 05 Aug, 2021

Emotional and sexual abuse in mother and baby homes among 64 new complaints to gardaí

Emotional and sexual abuse in mother and baby homes among 64 new complaints to gardaí

Illegal adoptions and complaints regarding medical treatments are also among the responses to the garda appeal

Mon, 02 Aug, 2021

FILE PHOTO Philomena Lee has called for Mother and Baby Homes survivors to be paid compensation, ahead of the publication of the

Philomena Lee action one of two lead challenges to Mother and Baby homes report

The applicants claim they should be given the commission’s draft report and the opportunity to make submissions on it

Tue, 27 Jul, 2021

Mother and baby home redress won't be approved until September at the earliest

Mother and baby home redress won't be approved until September at the earliest

TD expresses disappointment at further delay to scheme which was initially supposed to be in place in May

Tue, 27 Jul, 2021

Tuam survivor ‘was abused at late TD’s home’, documentary alleges

Tuam survivor ‘was abused at late TD’s home’, documentary alleges

She alleges she was treated like a “slave” in their home.

Mon, 26 Jul, 2021

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Irish Examiner view: State has dismal record on historical abuse

Best way for the Government to illustrate its sincerity is to take the kind of action that makes it easy for victims to claim compensation

Fri, 23 Jul, 2021

Secondary school pupils to learn about Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home abuses

Secondary school pupils to learn about Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home abuses

NUI Galway's Irish Centre for Human Rights has published secondary school teaching materials on Ireland’s institutional abuses, which have been created with survivors and school teachers, pupils, activists and artists

Thu, 22 Jul, 2021

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Planning refused for fourth apartment block at Bessborough site

The Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance said the State must acquire the site, so that the burial area could be preserved

Mon, 19 Jul, 2021

Children's minister urged to accept alternative review of mother and baby homes report

Children's minister urged to accept alternative review of mother and baby homes report

Rewriting the executive summary of the final commission report, a group of 25 experts has found that mother and baby home residents were subjected to involuntary detention, forced labour, and illegal adoption

Wed, 14 Jul, 2021

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Mother and baby home residents subjected to 'involuntary detention'

An alternative expert review rejects many of the findings of the Mother and Baby Home Commission's report and says the State is responsible for abuses carried out in the institutions

Mon, 12 Jul, 2021

Irish examiner view: Challenges to Mother and Baby Home Commission’s report

Irish examiner view: Challenges to Mother and Baby Home Commission’s report

An independent analysis carried out by 25 academics is due to be published on Wednesday

Mon, 12 Jul, 2021

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