“If I have one regret,” my friend Patricia said, “it’s that I lived in Paris in the summer of 1968, and it all went over my head.”

Majella Moynihan was forced to give her child up for adoption after she had sex out of marriage in 1984. She was not the only ‘fallen’ woman shabbily treated by the State, says Linda Connolly

Majella Moynihan told her story this week and joins the likes of Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, and Eileen Flynn as women who were failed by the State, writes Dan Buckley

Gardaí are beginning house-to-house enquiries on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry this morning in relation to the death of the Kerry baby, also known as Baby John.

The characters in ‘Whistle’ and ‘Conversations’ strike home to my era of emigration and every era since, writes Victoria White.

Can we name any medical/social scandal that has affected only the male gender?

DNA samples have been requested from several locals in south Kerry as part of a renewed inquiry into the death of the ‘Kerry Baby’, also known as Baby John.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has personally spoken to Joanne Hayes as arrangements for compensation continue to be negotiated over the Kerry Babies controversy.

The reconsideration of the Kerry Babies’ scandal brought many long-ago questions back into public view.

A prayer was offered at weekend Masses in Caherciveen for the infant Baby John and for his family, amid a new inquiry into what was a traumatic event in a South Kerry community over 30 years ago.

Leading Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has said his decision to support repeal of the Eighth Amendment and access to abortion up to 12 weeks was “agonising and difficult”.

Was it by chance or by design that the apologies to Joanne Hayes came just as the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment began in earnest,? asks Victoria White.

Reports of secret relationships and long-hidden affairs are being recalled in Co Kerry as a result of the renewed investigation into the death of the baby found stabbed on a beach near Caherciveen in 1984.

Power has always been used to oppress - but it has also been used to cover up oppression, writes Fergus Finlay

Leo Varadkar’s reaction to the Kerry Babies case and his apology to Joanne Hayes hit the right note as the leader of our country, writes Terry Prone.

Joyce Fegan outlines the timeline of events that led to the Kerry Babies tribunal, which ultimately turned into the trial of Joanne Hayes, who was crosss-examined for five days at the hearing. Below are excerpts from the proceedings.

The depth of rage that swept over me this week after gardaí apologised to the woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies tribunal, one of the most shameful episodes in recent Irish legal history, can’t be adequately described, writes Clodagh Finn.

This was a debate about women’s rights and healthcare and about giving women equal opportunity, writes Alison O’Connor

A politician who is close to the Hayes family at the centre of the Kerry Babies controversy has said any potential fresh investigation into how gardaí obtained signed statements about what happened should only take place if it leaves the family alone.

People in South Kerry are going to be asked if they would be willing to give a DNA sample as part of the Baby John case.

THE Taoiseach, Tánaiste, justice minister, and acting Garda Commissioner are a sorry lot.

Joanne Hayes, who was wrongly accused of the murder of Baby John, has welcomed an apology for what she went through, but her only request now is to be given privacy and allowed to live in peace, a family friend has said.

The director of the lab responsible for the DNA breakthrough in the Kerry Babies investigation has explained how advancements in technology allowed scientists to build a complete DNA profile of Baby John from a sample taken 34 years ago.

The Kerry Babies Tribunal opened in Tralee on January 7, 1985, and ran for 82 days. During the course of the tribunal, a number of claims by the Hayes’ family that they had been assaulted by gardaí investigating the case were examined. All were rejected as untrue.

The tribunal into the Kerry babies was like a “medieval witch hunt” with the victims burning at the stake and the crowd dancing around the fire, the Dáil heard.

It will be far more practical for our society to look at the way certain babies are ‘disallowed’, writes Victoria White

Anyone alive when the 1984 Kerry Babies’ story transfixed and divided the country must be at least 33 years of age; anyone who was old enough to understand the startling events, the incredible allegations and appalling behaviour of official Ireland, resplendent in its Talibanesque moral superiority, as it unfolded must be closer to 50 if not older.

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Gardaí have issued an apology to the woman at the centre of the Kerry babies scandal, admitting for the first time that the original investigation was substandard.

Latest: Gardaí have confirmed a DNA profile has conclusively stated Joanne Hayes is not Baby John’s mother.

Thirty-three years after gardaí failed to discover the killer and mother of a baby boy, the investigation is to be reactivated, writes Donal Hickey.

A garda review of the death of a baby whose murder is bound forever to one of the most divisive sagas in modern Irish history gets under way today.