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Organisation: Bessborough Mother

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Bessborough nuns should be questioned by gardaí, former resident urges

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Bessborough nuns should be questioned by gardaí, former resident urges

Limerick woman, Ann O'Gorman, who had a little girl called Evelyn at Bessborough when she was just 17 years old, says that gardaí need to intervene in order to question members of the religious order who are still alive.

MORNING BULLETIN: Shame of what lies beneath as children buried in unmarked graves up to 1990

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MORNING BULLETIN: Shame of what lies beneath as children buried in unmarked graves up to 1990
HSE stays silent on concerns over baby homes

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HSE stays silent on concerns over baby homes
Religious order set for windfall with Bessborough sale

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Religious order set for windfall with Bessborough sale
Morning briefing: Bessborough Mother and baby vaccine trial files altered. Catch up on all the headlines

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Morning briefing: Bessborough Mother and baby vaccine trial files altered. Catch up on all the headlines
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Thu, 06 Aug, 2015

Adoption campaigners: Bessborough questions need to be answered
Adoption campaigners: Bessborough questions need to be answered

Adoption rights campaigners have said “serious questions” need to be answered as to why concerns raised by the HSE about Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in 2012 were not acted upon at the time.

Wed, 03 Jun, 2015

Ireland’s generation of stolen children deserve to know who they are
Ireland’s generation of stolen children deserve to know who they are

IF we did not deprive them of life, we deprived them of their identity. That is the hard truth about our relationship with “illegitimate” children which Stephen Frears’s film Philomena makes us face.

Thu, 07 Nov, 2013

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