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Child death rates in three mother-and-baby homes that were run by religious orders were as high as 50% during the 1940s.
A five-year-old schoolboy was jabbed by a heroin addict’s needle which was thrown into his school’s play area minutes before break time yesterday.
The Archbishop of Tuam says it is his understanding that the managers of the mother and baby Home in Tuam handed material to Galway County Council and health authorities in 1961.
Police in Canada are focusing on two streets in a massive manhunt for a gunman who shot dead three officers and wounded two others.
A skydiving gecko and a fish that mates head-to- head are among hundreds of new species found by scientists in the Greater Mekong region.
Martin O’Neill has expressed his delight at Roy Keane’s decision to stay on with Ireland and, rather than surrender to another round of speculation, is determined to leave the subject of a possible role for his assistant at Aston Villa "on the back burner" until the completion of the team’s short American tour.
It is being reported that Darren Cave will start at outside centre for Ireland in their first test against Argentina this Saturday.
High levels of excise duty on alcohol in Ireland is damaging tourism and one of the country’s oldest industries Irish whiskey.
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It took 31 years before the Sacred Heart nuns admitted to Mary that her baby boy had died of septicaemia, writes Claire O’Sullivan.
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The Black Eyed Peas won't reform unless they develop a bold new sound.
Wexford’s Woodbrook green ‘graveyard’ is a tree-bound meadow of wildflowers and wooden benches and each plot has a wooden marker. Its sustainable ethos is unique in Ireland, says John Hearne.
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The mother of a 3-year-old boy who was almost strangled to death by a blinds cord last night said she feels very lucky her son lived through the near-tragedy in his own sitting room.
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