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# Bon Secours

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2022
Non-compliance found with ionising radiation policies at a number of hospitals
The watchdog’s latest inspection reports were published today.
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Nov 24th 2022, 5:44 PM
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'We did not live up to our Christianity': Bon Secours apologises for Tuam mother and baby home
Historian Catherine Corless said she is grateful for the “honest” statement.
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Jan 13th 2021, 11:18 AM
Religious order that ran Tuam says it was 'under supervision, direction and inspection' of Irish State
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
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Mar 26th 2019, 6:30 AM
Government sought more money from Bon Secours Sisters for Tuam burial site excavation works
The religious order has pledged €2.5 million towards the works which will cost between €6-€13m.
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Oct 24th 2018, 4:08 PM
'Urgent action is needed': Letters reveal shock at discovery of human remains at mother and baby home
The Commission into Mother and Baby Homes wrote to Minister Katherine Zappone before the ‘very shocking’ news broke.
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Apr 10th 2017, 6:10 AM
Poll: Should the State take over hospitals owned by the Catholic Church?
There have been calls for the hospitals to be handed over, amid criticism in relation to compensation owed to abuse victims.
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Mar 13th 2017, 8:37 AM
Gardaí should interview the surviving Bon Secour nuns over Tuam burial site, says TD
“Age should not diminish responsibility,” said the Independent Alliance TD.
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Mar 10th 2017, 12:40 PM
'You were just a bastard in their eyes. But they can't hide from the truth now'
PJ Haverty’s mother spent five years hammering on the door of the Tuam home trying to get the nuns to return her son – instead they gave him away.
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Mar 5th 2017, 8:05 AM
Nuns who ran Tuam home have 'no comment' to make on today's revelations
They did say that they are fully committed to the Commission of Investigation ‘seeking the truth’ about what happened.
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Mar 3rd 2017, 2:49 PM
Remains of young children and babies found in sewage chambers at Tuam mother and baby home
In a statement, the Commission said it is “shocked by the discovery” and its investigation is continuing.
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Mar 3rd 2017, 11:26 AM
Second excavation gets underway into alleged mass grave at Mother and Baby home
It is alleged that 800 babies are buried at the site of the Mother and Baby Home in Galway.
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Feb 8th 2017, 2:19 PM
File to be sent to DPP regarding alleged sexual assault at Bon Secours Hospital
A woman in her 60s claims to have been raped by a medic at the hospital earlier this month.
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Sep 19th 2016, 9:18 PM
Gardaí investigating alleged sexual assault at hospital in Kerry
The incident is said to have happened last weekend.
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Sep 18th 2016, 9:09 AM
There are 625 jobs on the way in the Rebel County (and another 50 in Dublin)
Business outsourcing group Voxpro lead the charge in Cork city, while the Bon Secours hospital group isn’t far behind.
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Nov 20th 2015, 6:12 PM
Row brews over Terry Prone Tuam babies email
“If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried”
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Oct 13th 2014, 5:28 PM
Opinion: Questions remain unanswered over the Tuam mother-and-baby home
To understand what happened, it is vital to hold inquests into the deaths of all those buried at the site of the former home.
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Oct 10th 2014, 12:04 PM
Here are the state files recalled from the National Archives by the Department of Health
Two of the files requisitioned by the department as part of the investigation into mother and baby homes relate to the Bon Secours home in Tuam.
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Jun 21st 2014, 7:00 AM
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
Opinion: Abuse and neglect are being hidden in plain sight – but will we open our eyes?
History will judge us every bit as harshly as we are now judging the society which condemned women and children to mother-and-baby homes.
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Jun 13th 2014, 8:00 AM
Explainer: What is happening with the possible mass grave of children in Tuam?
We look at how the story has unfolded, and the many, many questions that still remain.
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Jun 10th 2014, 11:20 AM
Opinion: Horror doesn't belong to the past, Ireland's most vulnerable are still marginalised and neglected
These are the unpalatable facts: we are living at a time of growing homelessness and food poverty, and we allow vulnerable children to socially excluded, neglected and ignored.
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Jun 8th 2014, 8:30 AM
Aaron McKenna: The nation, not just the Church, bears responsibility for horrors of the past
For Irish people who lived through these times to claim no knowledge of what went on in places like Tuam is disingenuous – and smacks of “I was only following orders”.
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Jun 7th 2014, 8:00 AM
Radar tests carried out on Tuam site to find mass grave
The test has been commissioned by the Irish Mail on Sunday which will publish the results in this weekend’s edition of the paper.
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Jun 6th 2014, 10:52 PM
Lunchtime Fix: 7 things you need to know
Catch up as you refuel.
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Jun 5th 2014, 1:13 PM
TD calls for Tuam mass grave to be declared a crime scene
Catherine Murphy was among those to call for a full public inquiry into the situation.
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Jun 5th 2014, 12:58 PM
Allegations about mass grave of 800 babies 'being taken very, very seriously'
“This is turning into a horrific account of maltreatment, neglect and a complete abdication of responsibility”.
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Jun 3rd 2014, 7:50 PM
Woman to sue over delayed cancer diagnosis
A cancer suffer has appealed to the High Court to speed up her hearing because of her poor prognosis.
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Sep 9th 2010, 12:45 PM