A couple of weeks ago I wrote here that the public policy system in Ireland has always been misogynistic, writes Fergus Finlay. 

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 mysterious deaths of two Kerry babies in the 1980s resolved little and pleased nobody, writes Ryle Dwyer

THE discovery of a newborn’s body on a beach and a family’s alleged confession they had killed a baby days earlier and put the body into the sea led to the Kerry Babies Tribunal.