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Cork City Council investigators have visited the site of the former Bessborough mother and baby home to ascertain if the destruction of the historic ‘folly’ near a burial plot warrants an enforcement action.
Fri, 15 Mar, 2019
Children in mother and baby homes were "buried in the dead of night with no priest, no cleric, no ritual, no mother beside them”, writes Fergus Finlay
Tue, 22 Dec, 2015
The order that ran the Bessborough mother and baby home has claimed it was instructed in 2013 to destroy “all documents” it held in relation to vaccine trials carried out on children.
Mon, 07 Dec, 2015
As Bessborough was investigated, the nuns were told don’t co-operate, writes Conall Ó Fatharta
Mon, 23 Nov, 2015
A previously unpublished report by the HSE in 2012 examined Bessborough’s own records. The in-depth findings and conclusions are damning. Conall Ó Fátharta reports
Tue, 02 Jun, 2015
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