Place: Bessborough Mother and Baby Home

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'It's amazing — it's going to change how the homeless are looked at': Riva finds her forever home in Cork

After decades of battling mental health problems and addiction, Riva Lawlor moved into her forever home earlier this summer, with the help of the Peter McVerry Trust

Tue, 22 Aug, 2023

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough

Mother and baby home campaigners criticise slow progress of Institutional Burials Bill

The Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance has written to all members of the Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration committee urging them to advance the process urgently

Wed, 07 Jul, 2021

Government urged to release names of Bessborough children

Catherine Corless, the historian who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal, has called on the Government to release the names of more than 900 children who died in Cork’s Bessborough Mother and Baby home.

Mon, 19 Aug, 2019

Near demolition of Bessborough folly stopped by Cork City Council

Controversial works which have resulted in the near total demolition of the historic ‘folly’ near a burial plot at the site the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home have stopped.

Sat, 16 Mar, 2019

Probe of near-demolition of Bessborough folly

The almost complete demolition of an historic folly near a burial plot on the grounds of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork has been described as an outrageous attack on the city’s DNA.

Wed, 13 Mar, 2019