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2022

'This isn't justice': Relatives criticise fact Bessborough site won't be excavated like Tuam

The burial place of over 850 children who died in Bessborough mother and baby home, or shortly after being transferred to hospital from there, remains unknown.

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Sep 2nd 2022, 3:11 PM

# catherine corless

Tuam mother and baby home site to be excavated after President signs Burials Bill into law

The legislation will also allow for the excavation and reburial of remains at the sites of other former institutions.

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Jul 13th 2022, 12:04 PM

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Long-awaited bill passed to allow excavation of remains found in Tuam

The legislation allows the children’s remains found at the site to be excavated, recovered, and finally given a formal burial.

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Jul 7th 2022, 12:11 PM

# Coroner

Burials Bill: New law will allow for Tuam mother and baby home and other sites to be excavated

The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the legislation.

The legislation will allow the excavation, recovery and analysis of remains at the site of the former mother and baby institutions

The restriction on the jurisdiction of the coroner has been removed entirely from the Bill

Catherine Corless said today is "a good day", Órla Ryan reports

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Feb 22nd 2022, 4:25 PM

# Cabinet

Burials Bill will be published today, paving the way for Tuam site to finally be excavated

Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman will bring the draft legislation to Cabinet this morning.

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Feb 22nd 2022, 6:00 AM

# Tuam

Long-awaited Burials Bill to be published next week

If the legislation passes in the coming months, the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam may finally be excavated.

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Feb 18th 2022, 2:58 PM

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Tuam site may finally be excavated in 2022 - five years after 'significant' human remains found

The long-awaited Burials Bill and the Birth Information and Tracing Bill are expected to be published in the next two months.

The site of the former mother and baby home may be excavated five years after a "significant" quantity of human remains were found

Survivors, relatives and archaeologists have called for the Tuam site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports

The long-awaited Burials Bill and the Birth Information and Tracing Bill are expected to be published in the next two months

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Dec 24th 2021, 12:05 AM

# Tuam

UN experts warn Burials Bill may 'create obstacles' to examining deaths at Mother & Baby Homes

The proposed legislation raises “serious concerns in relation to the State’s compliance with its international legal obligations”, the groups note.

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Nov 10th 2021, 5:19 PM

# the missing children

'Four years on and still no action': Call for Tuam mother and baby home site to be excavated

A test excavation found a “significant” quantity of human remains, but a full excavation has still not happened – to the frustration of survivors and archaeologists.

Survivors, relatives and archaeologists are calling for the site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports

They want DNA testing carried out to identify the remains of the children buried in Tuam

A new documentary explores the search for the truth about what happened to those who disappeared

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Nov 7th 2021, 7:00 AM

# Cork

'Significant victory' for campaigners as planning permission for Bessborough apartments is refused

An Bord Pleanála said it is “not satisfied that the site was not previously used as, and does not contain, a children’s burial ground”.

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May 26th 2021, 2:18 PM

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Bessborough survivor says more women 'will die not knowing if their child is rotting in a septic tank'

The Children’s Committee today discussed legislation that would allow exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby institutions.

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Apr 27th 2021, 6:15 PM

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'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes

One Tuam survivor told the Oireachtas Children’s Committee he wants to know if his sister is buried at the site, or still alive.

Inquests must be carried out into all deaths at mother and baby homes, Oireachtas told

One Tuam survivor wants to know if his sister is buried at the site, or still alive

Ireland 'must meet its domestic and international human rights obligations'

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Apr 14th 2021, 6:00 PM

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'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes

Legislation being debated today would allow excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby homes.

Legislation being debated today would allow excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby homes

Catherine Corless says as many sites as possible must be included

"The babies should have been taken out of there in 2017 when they were found," she says of Tuam

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Apr 14th 2021, 12:05 AM