Joyce Fegan: Mother and baby homes redress shortfall touches a primal nerve

“There’s a sense that this country and its people are not necessarily behind, nor swayed by the Government's apparent financial prudence on this occasion“

Does whatever happens to a baby under six months old not matter, and does a baby not feel the trauma of what happened to him or her under six months old, Social Democrat TD Jennifer Whitmore asked the Dáil. Picture: Larry Cummins

Few poems capture the primal and profound experience of being someone’s child, or growing one, than Marie Howe’s ‘My Mother’s Body’.

“Bless my mother’s body, the first song of her beating