Protestant survivors of mother and baby homes await justice
‘We missed out because of our religion ... we’re still being discriminated against’
Why mother and baby homes report findings cannot be let stand
Alternate conclusions around force and abuse possible as accuracy of history is key
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
Rejecting mother and baby homes report risks survivors’ redress, Minister says
Opposition calls for rejection of commission report over treatment of women’s testimony
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
Commission dealt with 1.3m documents and held 195 hearings
Report from body states that its conclusions ‘may not accord with prevailing narrative’
Inquiry report into mother and baby homes may be delayed
Exceptional length and general election flagged as reasons that could stall publication
Government caught between contesting passions over retention of abuse files
Some abuse survivors want files opened while others are terrified about revelations
Child abuse inquiry admits to ‘seriously erroneous statistic’
Number of children who went through institutions investigated by Ryan Commission is about a quarter of 170,000 previously cited
‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report
Interview: On the 10th anniversary of the report’s publication, Ryan looks back
'Anybody awkward was put somewhere. Ireland was closed, defensive, xenophobic'
Ten years ago, Seán Ryan’s definitive report shed light on some of Ireland’s darkest secrets
We have a culture of not listening to abuse survivors
Sealing witnesses’s testimony for 75 years is highly detrimental to national history
Abuse documents not to be destroyed despite assurances
Evidence given in belief it would be destroyed to be retained in National Archives
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