Organisation: Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

comment-analysis

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

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

<p>The official report of the mother and baby homes commission photographed at the site of the Tuam home. A group of legal and academic experts who 'profoundly disagreed' with its approach and findings have produced an alternative report. Picture: Andy Newman</p>

news

State is responsible for several mass abuses, alternative Mother and Baby homes report finds

news

Tuam home survivor: 'I want a better report, one that would say how badly we were treated'

court and crime

Bessborough survivor aims to have parts of the mother and baby homes report quashed

politics

Bid to retrieve witness tapes as TD seeks to extend the mother and baby commission by a year

Backup tapes may contain erased mother and baby home witness testimony

Survivors of mother and baby homes have been given fresh hope after the commission of investigation said it has found backup files that may contain their witness recordings.

Fri, 19 Feb, 2021

Children exhumed from mother and baby home sites 'may not get coroner's report'

Serious concerns have been raised that hundreds of children buried on the grounds of former mother and baby homes may not get a coroner's report after they are exhumed.

Wed, 03 Feb, 2021

Mother and baby homes report fails to fully address the issue of illegal adoptions

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

Thu, 14 Jan, 2021

Business Movers: Marie Kinsella becomes law partner at Phillip Lee

Here is a selection of people who have begun new roles with companies and organisations in Ireland, including OneLogin, 3Sixty, Philip Lee, Learning Pool, Irish Farmers’ Association and Cork County Council

Thu, 13 Feb, 2020

Grave injustice as adopted people must continue fight for their rights

For those of us who have been involved in adoption activism over the past two decades, it often feels as though the Government is engaged in a war of attrition against adopted people, writes Claire McGettrick.

Fri, 12 Jul, 2019

In the North, they abandon peace; in the South, we abandon babies

Public policy yesterday, public policy today. The more things change, the more they sometimes stay the same.

Tue, 23 Apr, 2019

Evening Round-up: Lyra McKee death; Notre Dame stabilised; Mother and baby home report

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Fri, 19 Apr, 2019

Troubling questions raised by the dead from Mother and Baby Homes

With the publication this week of the fifth interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, the disturbing spectre of the dead who were confined in those institutions of shame and segregation continues to haunt us.

Fri, 19 Apr, 2019

Appeal for information over burials at mother and baby homes

A public appeal for information has been made relating to the burials of a “large number” of children who died in the Bessborough mother and baby home.

Tue, 06 Feb, 2018

Inquiries and tribunals to cost taxpayer €22m

Almost €22m of taxpayers’ money will be spent by the end of the year on just six of the 15 investigations and tribunals that have been announced by Government.

Mon, 08 May, 2017

Tuam babies scandal: Terms must be widened for full probe

There has been much comment on the need for the terms of reference for the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to be expanded.

Tue, 07 Mar, 2017

Vaccine trial victim to lodge complaints over altered file

One of the victims of the Bessborough vaccine trial is to make a formal Garda complaint after it emerged files were altered in 2002.

Thu, 17 Nov, 2016

Authority admits thousands of adoptions illegal

Thousands of Irish people "must have been" illegally adopted, with many taken out of the country, the Adoption Authority (AAI) has admitted.

Mon, 07 Jul, 2014