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

A Dunkathel area home within reach of Cork city comes with optional multiple acres, says Tommy Barker.

The terms of reference for the new investigation into mother and baby homes received a broad welcome — but also criticism over its exclusion of Magdalene Laundries and adoptions involving state hospitals.

Conall ÓFatharta’s report, Irish Examiner Aug 25, on the very high infant deaths at Bessborough House in the 1940s is not merely stale news but also absurdly unbalanced as it omits crucial facts. The principal blame lay with the state regulators, not the nuns – and certainly not with religion or the Catholic Church.

Children adopted from a mother-and-baby home run by the Sacred Heart Sisters in Cork have called for an independent public inquiry to find out how many babies died at the centre and where the bodies are buried.

RURAL people were up at the crack of dawn yesterday, which was apt for the Summer Solstice.