Mother and baby homes

Samples have been taken from 18 elderly or vulnerable people to help identify any remains that may be found at former mother and baby home

Excavation of site of former mother and baby institution began in July and is likely to take at least two years

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Under the Institutional Burials Act, cousins can not provide DNA for identification purposes at the Tuam Mother and Baby home excavation

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

Residents of the old St Patrick’s Infant and Dietetic Hospital are excluded from redress schemes despite its role in adoptions

The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense

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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Children buried at former mother and baby home site ‘got no dignity in life and got no dignity in death’, sister says

Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order

‘No mention’ of babies who died at Sean Ross Abbey or of need to investigate anomalies on land, says campaigner

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Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried

Irish Times reporter Órla Ryan reflects on the decade since Tuam mother and baby home revelations

Two very different playgrounds exist in Co Galway town

Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice

The Bon Secours-run institution has admitted it did not treat the bodies of dead children properly

Almost 800 children could be buried at the site

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Government faces steep legal barriers to compelling orders to contribute to €800m redress scheme, say experts

Some survivors want Government to seize assets of religious orders who refuse to pay

The mother, who was unmarried when she gave birth, says she was forced to give up her baby

Any attempt to force payment from church orders would be fraught with legal difficulty, expert says

Congregations ‘operated as criminal networks in mother and baby homes’, Social Democrats acting leader tells Dáil

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The majority of those held in homes across the North came from a Protestant background, and their babies were adopted by Protestant families

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An independent panel is seeking testimony from anyone who spent time in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, along with those who worked, volunteered in, or lived nearby