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Planning application denied for apartments on former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home site
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Planning permission sought for apartment buildings on site of former Mother and Baby Home
'Pregnant from Ireland' - A term many people didn't know until recently, even the women themselves
'You're a Quinn, you're one of us': Woman adopted to US in 1960 finally meets her Irish family
'These were babies, not numbers': New website documents deaths in mother and baby homes
'This isn't justice': Relatives criticise fact Bessborough site won't be excavated like Tuam
Council unable to find burial place of babies despite checking records of 13 graveyards
'The Irish Handmaid's Tale': Mother and Baby Home survivor says reality was worse than fiction
'I am fuming, it's so disrespectful': Survivors react to commissioners' refusal to appear before Oireachtas
'Yet another blow to survivors': Women get few answers as Commissioner defends report
'Significant victory' for campaigners as planning permission for Bessborough apartments is refused
Geraldine was born in St Patrick's, her sister Pauline was born in Bessborough - 50 years later they found each other
Bessborough survivor says more women 'will die not knowing if their child is rotting in a septic tank'
'It's a children's burial ground': Expert claims map of Bessborough site is correct
Survivors call plan to build apartments at Bessborough site 'an abhorrent act of desecration'
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
Part of controversial plans for apartments at Bessborough refused planning permission
Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs
Mother and baby home survivor sues State and order of nuns over alleged treatment at Bessborough
Premature births and malnutrition: how infant mortality in one home rose to 900% of national rates
Minister expresses serious concerns about planning permission for apartments at Bessborough site
5-year investigation finds at least 9,000 children died in Ireland's mother and baby homes
'Accept responsibility and we might accept your apology': Survivors brace themselves for mother and baby home report
How a 'surprising' lack of burial records impacted the work of the mother and baby home commission
Final report of Commission into Mother and Baby Homes to be published in January
'The country is sick of things being brushed under the carpet': What could a national archive on abuse look like?
Nuns accused of 'run and grab all' as Bessborough campus put up for sale
Republic of Shame: 'One woman came in wearing two corsets to hide her pregnancy'
Diarmuid Martin: 'It's hard to believe that evidence has simply vanished and that no one can remember'
Bessborough nun claims she doesn't remember any child deaths - there were 31 during her time there
'Straight away you could feel the horror of it': Nuns 'changed baby's name so he'd be easier to sell'
'I gave birth to my child on a metal table at 18, alone in a room in a convent'
Handover of 25,000 mother-and-baby files indicates "scale and breadth" of investigation
Here's how to make a submission to the mother and baby homes inquiry
Ten mother and baby homes carried out vaccine trials on almost 300 children - report