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
Ireland’s proportion of unmarried mothers in homes ‘was probably highest in world’
Nearly 56,000 unmarried mothers were in 18 institutions over 76 years investigated by Mother and Baby Homes Commission
Reek Sunday: climbers on Croagh Patrick down 90% as pilgrimage cancelled
Annual August National novena at Knock is postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic
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