# Bethany Home

Last year

2022

# tributes

'A remarkable man': Bethany Home campaigner Derek Leinster dies aged 81

His legal proceedings against the State are ongoing.

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Nov 21st 2022, 9:16 AM

# Derek Leinster

Bethany Home survivor 'highly concerned' by legal delays as State seeks more time to respond

The State believes parts of Derek Leinster’s case fall outside the statute of limitations.

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May 30th 2022, 2:28 PM

# FOI

Mother & Baby Homes: Just 40 survivors get health files amid row over GPs signing off on requests

The majority of survivors, 31, received the records via Freedom of Information requests, not GDPR.

Only 40 survivors have received their medical files to date from the Department of Children, Órla Ryan reports

The majority of survivors received the records via Freedom of Information requests, rather than through GDPR

Just 10 people got their records after a GP signed off on the process, The Journal can reveal

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Jan 9th 2022, 12:05 AM

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# High Court

Bethany Home survivor Derek Leinster lodges legal proceedings against Irish State

Leinster has campaigned for over 20 years for the inclusion of Bethany Home and other Protestant institutions in redress schemes.

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Oct 6th 2021, 12:05 AM

# Bethany Home

Campaigner Derek Leinster says Protestant survivors and those living abroad 'not a priority' for redress

Leinster, who was born in Bethany Home in Dublin in 1941, has campaigned for redress for over 20 years.

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Mar 25th 2021, 6:05 AM

# Leo Varadkar

Bethany Home survivors 'shocked' to receive first letter from a Taoiseach 'in 20 years'

The group, who all lived in the Protestant mother and baby home, hope the letter will lead to some progress in their case.

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Nov 26th 2018, 6:45 AM

Names of 239 children who died in Protestant institutions added to memorial headstones

The name of a mother who died in childbirth was also added to one of the monuments.

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Jun 29th 2018, 10:38 PM

# mother and baby home

Over 70 babies who died at Bethany Home - and one mother - to be named on new memorial stone

The stone will be unveiled next week.

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Jun 24th 2018, 4:00 PM

# Bethany Home

Mother and baby home activist refuses to join selection panel for survivors' forum

Derek Leinster said that he believes that instead, Bethany Home survivors should be given redress before many of them die.

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Mar 20th 2018, 6:00 AM

# Bethany Home

Call for Protestant burial site to be excavated to examine bodies from mother and baby homes

The Bethany Home Survivors’ Group has identified over 200 children from the home who were buried at Mount Jerome cemetery.

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Jan 8th 2018, 6:15 AM

# Bethany Home

Dead from malnutrition and heart failure: 58 more children identified in unmarked graves in Dublin cemetery

One of those involved in tracking down the names said it brought them “great sadness”.

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Jan 6th 2018, 12:05 AM

# mother and baby home

Bethany Home survivor takes first step in bringing case to human rights court

The survivor who wants to bring the case said that it had taken 23 years to get to this point.

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Aug 1st 2016, 7:15 AM

# Bethany Home

"It would be a crime not to give us justice while we are still living"

They have been included in the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes, but Bethany Home survivors say they can’t wait another two years.

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Dec 20th 2015, 8:00 AM

# Bethany Home

Names of five more children buried in paupers' graves found

That makes 227 names in total on the Bethany memorial .

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Apr 6th 2015, 7:00 AM

# Ireland's Past

The Government is on track to finally investigate mother-and-baby homes

Survivors want a fully inclusive inquiry into what happened to them.

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Jan 8th 2015, 7:09 PM

# Bethany Home

Fears that survivors will die before mother-and-baby home probe even begins

The founder of one survivors’ group said they don’t want any more p

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Dec 17th 2014, 7:15 AM

# Redress

Mother-and-baby home survivors want fully inclusive inquiry into what happened to them

It is anticipated the terms of reference of the Commission of Inquiry will be discussed by Cabinet next week.

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Dec 12th 2014, 4:40 PM

# Bethany Home

'For the first time in 16 years we were treated the same as Catholics'

Mother and baby homes, including one group from a Protestant home, met with Minister James Reilly this month.

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Nov 21st 2014, 1:52 PM

# tuam babies

Should the mother-and-baby homes inquiry include orphanages?

James Reilly isn’t so sure.

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Nov 15th 2014, 7:45 AM

# mother and baby home

Over 222 children died in Bethany Home but 1939 report says they appeared 'happy'

One child was taken to hospital with severe whooping cough, conjunctivitis and infected feet.

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Jul 15th 2014, 10:40 PM

# terms of reference

Here's how to make a submission to the mother and baby homes inquiry

Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan has encouraged those who wish to make a submission to “act without delay”.

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Jun 18th 2014, 11:29 AM

# Bethany Home

"Cold, uncaring, uncivilised": The mother-and-child home where 222 babies died

The Bethany Home is to be investigated by the Government’s Commission for Investigation into mother-and-baby homes.

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Jun 15th 2014, 8:45 AM

# Inquiry

Bethany Home, where 222 children died, to be included in mother and baby home investigation

The Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan said today that he was conscious of the grievances felt by those connected to the Bethany Home, a protestant-run home on Dublin’s Orwell Road.

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Jun 10th 2014, 9:40 PM

# tip of the iceberg

Mary Lou McDonald warns that Tuam mass grave could be one of 'dozens'

Sinn Féin’s deputy leader has called for a public inquiry to look into all mother and baby homes nationwide.

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Jun 4th 2014, 4:10 PM

# Leaders' Questions

'Appalling indignity': Government to revisit opening State redress scheme to Bethany Home survivors

Mary Lou McDonald said that the coalition has to date “flatly and coldly refused the Bethany survivors the dignity of recognition”.

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Apr 3rd 2014, 1:15 PM

# Bethany Home

Children died of malnutrition, syphilis, heart failure at mother and baby home

The children were extremely young, with some dying from syphilis, convulsions, heart failure and malnutrition.

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Apr 2nd 2014, 11:24 PM

# resting place

Monument to 222 lost Bethany children to be unveiled at ceremony

The names of children who died while at the home are due to be released in the hope people will find their relations who lived there.

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Apr 2nd 2014, 11:29 AM

# Survivors

Memorial to 222 children who died at Bethany Home to be unveiled

The memorial is dedicated to the young babies and children who died while in the care of the home between 1922 and 1949.

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Mar 11th 2014, 9:31 AM

# Bethany Home

Bethany Home survivors say Lynch should 'consult a mirror' on facts

The Dáil debated the lack of redress for the survivors this week.

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Dec 13th 2013, 10:35 AM

# Bethany Home

Dáil to debate apology and redress for Bethany Home survivors

The government’s decision not to provide a redress scheme for survivors of the Dublin home will come under scrutiny tonight and tomorrow.

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Dec 10th 2013, 7:30 AM

# bethany

Bethany survivors to fund €6000 memorial themselves

Correspondence about a memorial has been sent to Minister Shatter, who is said to be considering the information.

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Nov 3rd 2013, 8:45 AM

# Redress

Bethany Home survivors look into bringing government to court

Derek Leinster said that there has been some good news regarding a memorial at Mount Jerome cemetery.

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Oct 17th 2013, 9:30 AM

# Bethany Home

Bethany Home survivor to speak at Trinity College

The night will also serve as the relaunch for two of Derek Leinster’s books, Hannah’s Shame and Destiny Unknown.

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Sep 21st 2013, 8:15 AM

# Bethany Home

Bethany Home survivor appeals to Taoiseach over redress

Derek Leinster has said that he would like Enda Kenny to set up a small committee “to do the right thing”.

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Aug 4th 2013, 8:15 AM

# Your Say

Poll: Should Bethany survivors be given same redress as Magdalenes?

Parallels have been made between the Bethany Home case and that of the Magadalene Laundries.

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Jul 25th 2013, 10:26 AM

# Redress

"Determined" Bethany Home survivors to continue fight for redress

The survivors are to regroup and consider their options in their fight for redress.

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Jul 25th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Kathleen Lynch

Minister said Bethany Home must be included in redress scheme... in 2010

Three years ago Kathleen Lynch said the government’s refusal to include the Bethany Home in a redress scgeme was a “running sore”. Yesterday she said the government’s decision to refuse redress was an “appropriate one”.

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Jul 24th 2013, 9:52 PM