Remove statute of limitations to encourage churches and orders to pay sex-abuse redress - expert
It is in the interest of religious organisations to contribute to schemes as way of reducing costs, says Prof Conor O’Mahony of Child Law Clinic
Mother and baby homes
Stories about Ireland's mother and baby homes
Why are the experiences of people, like me, who were resident in Temple Hill forgotten?
Residents of the old St Patrick’s Infant and Dietetic Hospital are excluded from redress schemes despite its role in adoptions
Tuam is a microcosm for Ireland’s history of discarded bones
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense
Higgins ‘open’ to visiting Tuam mother and baby home site as he welcomes excavation
The excavation will begin on Monday, some 11 years after research by local historian Catherine Corless revealed 796 children died at the institution
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Tuam families can see ‘light at the end of a very long tunnel’
Children buried at former mother and baby home site ‘got no dignity in life and got no dignity in death’, sister says
Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order
Mother and baby home survivor upset by absence of 1,090 infants from key report
‘No mention’ of babies who died at Sean Ross Abbey or of need to investigate anomalies on land, says campaigner
Mother and Baby Homes: ‘There isn’t a family in Ireland that isn’t affected by it’
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Exclusion of some survivors from mother and baby redress scheme ‘causing anger, distress and retraumatisation’
Advocate for abuse survivors criticises ‘arbitrary criteria’ for scheme admission as she publishes first annual report
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Other burial sites must be identified, says survivors’ advocate after exhumation preparation begins in Tuam
Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried
Will the Tuam excavation finally bring closure to families?
Irish Times reporter Órla Ryan reflects on the decade since Tuam mother and baby home revelations
How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’
Two very different playgrounds exist in Co Galway town
Catherine Corless: ‘I was told more often than not that I was giving Tuam a bad name’
Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice
Catherine Corless ‘so relieved’ excavation of Tuam mother and baby home will finally begin on Monday
The Bon Secours-run institution has admitted it did not treat the bodies of dead children properly
Work to excavate site of Tuam mother and baby home to begin in June
Almost 800 children could be buried at the site
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Pope met eight Irish survivors of clerical abuse when he visited Ireland in August 2018
Churches should ‘do the right thing’ on mother-and-baby home redress, Norma Foley says
Government faces steep legal barriers to compelling orders to contribute to €800m redress scheme, say experts
Some religious orders’ refusal to contribute to mother and baby home redress shows ‘lack of compassion’
Some survivors want Government to seize assets of religious orders who refuse to pay
Woman sues over alleged forced adoption of her child at mother and baby home in 1980
The mother, who was unmarried when she gave birth, says she was forced to give up her baby
Church orders’ refusal to pay mother-and-baby home redress leaves Government with dilemma
Any attempt to force payment from church orders would be fraught with legal difficulty, expert says
Government must ‘flex legal muscle’ to force religious orders to contribute to redress schemes
Congregations ‘operated as criminal networks in mother and baby homes’, Social Democrats acting leader tells Dáil
Just one religious order has made ‘serious offer’ of cash redress to mother-and-baby home survivors
Government negotiator Sheila Nunan has submitted a final report with conclusions from talks with seven Catholic bodies and the Church of Ireland
Majority of Irish homeowners to see property tax increases this year
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Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generations that spring begins on February 1st, but is that true?
Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generation that spring begins on February 1st
Protestant churches face a day of reckoning with North’s inquiry into mother and baby homes
The majority of those held in homes across the North came from a Protestant background, and their babies were adopted by Protestant families
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
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Where is our hot moral indignation when it comes to the fathers of the babies found at Tuam?
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Finding family through DNA tests: ‘It was lovely to know everything. It wasn’t always a pretty story, but at least I knew’
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