Redress payments for baby home survivors urged in North

Northern Ireland deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill told the Stormont Assembly that women who should have been shown "love, sympathy, and kindness were instead isolated and excluded".

The North's deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill has confirmed that the executive has accepted all recommendations from an expert panel on investigating the mistreatment of women and children in mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries.

The Stormont-commissioned experts recommended a public inquiry and non-statutory independent panel to allow those who were sent to the institutions, and their families, to give testimony in a less adversarial format.