Developer ‘confident’ over appeal for apartment scheme on Bessborough mother and baby home site
Company behind plans says scheme will not encroach on possible burial ground at former mother and baby home
Baby Homes Commission
Redress scheme for mother and baby home residents to be approved shortly
Bill on excavation of children’s remains at institutions to become law early next year
In a Word . . . Media
Irish media for a long time did a medium job – at best – of holding power to account
Refusal of mother and baby home report authors to face Oireachtas ‘deeply regrettable’ – Varadkar
Findings could be ‘put in peril’ by rush to judgment by committee members, says commission head
Full letter sent to Oireachtas by former members of Mother and Baby Homes Commission
Letter sent to chair of Oireachtas Children’s Committee, Sinn Féin TD, Kathleen Funchion
The battle for Irish babies’ souls: ‘It ruined two lives, hers and mine’
‘Illegitimate’ babies of the 20th century were seen as property of churches
Micheál Martin describes issue of illegal adoption as ‘shocking’
Adoption-tracing legislation needed, says expert, as case studies to go before Cabinet
Mother and baby homes recordings should be destroyed – commission
Investigative body says it would be legally and morally wrong to retain testimony
Transcripts of all mother and baby home testimonies available
O’Gorman says disaster recovery tapes may contain the recordings of 549 survivors
Mother and baby homes report: Minister does not accept deleted audio files cannot be retrieved
Roderic O’Gorman is seeking an independent expert to examine commission’s servers
Cruelty and abuse of power were not the preserve of religious orders
State-run psychiatric hospitals were the single greatest contributor to coercive confinement in mid-20th century Ireland
Impugning the mother and baby commission does not serve victims
Commissions are imperfect mechanisms devised to provide some justice and redress
Church of Ireland to seek correction of ‘factually inaccurate’ commission report
Irish Church Missions rejects assertion it was ‘prominent in the running’ of Bethany home
Commission dealt with 1.3m documents and held 195 hearings
Report from body states that its conclusions ‘may not accord with prevailing narrative’
Bon Secours sisters who ran Tuam home offer ‘profound apologies’
Catholic archbishops and bishops express shame and sorrow at report findings
‘A matter of great sorrow to us that babies died while under our care’ say nuns
‘They betrayed vulnerable women, themselves, their calling and the caring message of Jesus Christ’ – Archbishop
Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate
Three-quarters of all children born in or admitted to Bessborough in 1943 died in infancy
Philomena Lee ‘dismayed’ by leak of mother and baby homes report
Survivor says families should be compensated for ‘unbearable suffering’ institutions caused
Lack of ‘consistency’ in how Tusla operates, says chief executive
Agency ‘some way off reaching a satisfactory level of GDPR compliance’, committee hears
Mother-and-baby homes: O’Gorman apologises for communication failure
Concern about legal challenges when report published, says Minister for Children
Mother-and-baby-homes: Dealing with sensitive data a difficult balancing act
Committee will have to weigh up a matrix of matters before making recommendations
Green Party Cllr Lorna Bogue resigns over Mother and Baby Home issue
Party has failed to engage ‘on this issue with a full understanding of its seriousness’
President signs Bill on mother and baby home records into law
Minister Roderic O’Gorman says Oireachtas can move ‘quickly’ on survivors’ concerns
Mother and Baby home survivor: ‘My identity, heritage and culture was taken from me’
Protesters gather on Navan Road over controversial Mother and Baby Homes legislation
Parties should commit to establishing institutional abuse archive – coalition
Independent national archive ‘essential part’ of survivors’ redress, says Dr O’Rourke
Inquiry report into mother and baby homes may be delayed
Exceptional length and general election flagged as reasons that could stall publication
State must allow institutionalised people access to personal files
Silencing of survivors of historical abuse by those in power has now lasted decades
Commission of Investigations Act inhibits truth-telling about past and present
Survivors and family members must be afforded a statutory right to information
Women who had children ‘forcibly taken’ still face discrimination
Philomena Lee refused right to give evidence in public to mother and baby home inquiry
Argos goes green . . . but for a house in the garden, try a big red affair
Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option
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