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Baby Homes Commission
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
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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