Ceremony hears call for more work to be done to secure the handing over of institutional records to the State

Bob Geldof offers support as 9,000 people set to sleep outside in freezing conditions

Monkstown down three international players as they face Belfast Harlequins away

Ceremony at Mount Jerome cemetery for young who died at mother and child home

Background: Bethany Home survivors are excluded from the compensation scheme

One company says a game made from wood will do the trick

Call made in letter to Taoiseach by a former top official with HSE child and family services

Pope Francis has indicated a need to have women in more serious roles in church life

There is a wealth of great books about the world of business just waiting to be read

Commission to focus on 14 homes, with report to be completed by 2018

Inquiry to examine Catholic and Protestant homes between 1922 and early 1990s

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Campaign groups concerned over possible exclusion of Westbank Orphanage

House of Commons recalled to vote on involvement in effort to combat militants in Iraq

Irish campaigners meet MEPs in Brussels

First to encounter the Risen Christ yet named ‘penitent’ until 1969

Group tells Minister for Children commission of inquiry must be inclusive, wide-ranging

‘I was a slave all my young life. My mother was a slave to prejudice’

Minister says sensitivity a ‘primary concern’

Government urged to uphold UN Human Rights principles and rulings of European Court

Wide coalition of groups came together yesterday to highlight the injustices affecting them that needed to be addressed as a priority

Statutory inquiry to scrutinise secret and illegal adoptions as well as burial practices

Even the story of Philomena Lee, as recounted in the film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, did not stir the national conscience to action

Religious congregations who ran facilities welcome plan for Government investigation

Pope Francis renews appeal for an end to the conflict

More traditional issues were in focus during Leaders’ Questions

McDonald calls for apology and redress for victims

Mother tells how the Firefly Upsee helped her two-year-old daughter to walk hand in hand for the first time with her twin brother

Dubliner claims breaststroke medal and his first success in a major championship in a time of 26.56

McDonald criticises Government for decision

Survivors group says offer to open records and create memorial ‘an insult’

Jim Bolger can also strike in the Group Three juvenile fillies with Royal Ascot fourth Heart Focus

Survivors will qualify for payments of up to €100,000