Event: mother and baby home scandal

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Special Report: How accommodating asylum seekers turned into a billion-euro industry

The lucrative business of direct provision has been mired in controversy and criticised by human rights groups, Political Correspondents Aoife Moore and Paul Hosford investigate

Mon, 27 Apr, 2020

Katherine Zappone to hear views on Tuam home site

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone is to visit Tuam next Monday to hear from people affected by the mother and baby home scandal.

Thu, 19 Jul, 2018

Katherine Zappone: ‘We will find the truth and achieve reconciliation’

The Government is looking at methods of justice used in post-apartheid South Africa and after Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile to address the mother and baby home scandal here.

Fri, 10 Mar, 2017

Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors: Up to 7000 babies buried across the country

The Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors has claimed that up to 7000 babies could have been buried at 9 mother and baby homes across the country.

Mon, 06 Mar, 2017

Fewer Irish women going to Britain for abortions

There has been a small decrease in the number of women who travelled from Ireland to Britain for an abortion over the past two years, official figures show.

Fri, 13 Jun, 2014