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

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

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.

Pigeon House, Poolbeg (Dublin Theatre Festival)

We are well used to Garda scandals and shortcomings, but last week’s report by the Inspectorate gathered all these errors together and proved change is long overdue, writes Dr Vicky Conway

A retired detective inspector who was involved in the Kerry Babies investigation 30 years ago has called for the exhumation of the remains of both male infants for full DNA analysis.

When Eamon Casey’s son first met his father, the then Catholic bishop of Galway so upset the youngster that he fled from him in tears.

The second-class status of women in Irish society was thrown into sharp and ugly focus once more by the death of Savita Halappanavar.

National debates on social issues, such as during the Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign, could trigger moving statues or even apparitions, it was claimed today.

THE woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies Tribunal more than 20 years ago has pleaded with promoters planning to make two films about the controversy to desist.

A key figure at the Morris tribunal today demanded to examine Garda records in the Kerry Babies case.

RETIRED Detective Inspector Gerry O’Carroll persists in maintaining that the gardaí were right in the assumption that Joanne Hayes was the mother of the two babies at the centre of the Kerry Babies case in 1984.

JOANNE HAYES, the woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies case in 1984, wants modern technology to clear her name.