There was not even a flower petal left to mark the graves of the hundreds of children who died in the Protestant mother and baby homes.

There was great potential in the iconic St Kevin’s asylum, writes Kieran McCarthy.

THE SISTERS of Our Lady of Charity, who ran a Magdalene laundry in North Dublin, received thousands of pounds from numerous wills and legacies from the 1920s through to the 1970s, documentation shows.

A REPORT prepared by the HSE detailing how many young mothers were transferred from state-run mother-and-baby homes to unregulated Magdalene laundries has been handed over to the Department of Health.