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# burials-bill - Tuesday 22 February, 2022


# Coroner
# Coroner
Burials Bill: New law will allow for Tuam mother and baby home and other sites to be excavated
Updated Feb 22nd 2022, 4:25 PM 14,890 Views 23 Comments
• 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
• Burials Bill will be published today, paving the way for Tuam site to finally be excavated
• 'I'll protest until I die': Call for 'forgotten' boarded out children to be given redress


# Cabinet

# Cabinet

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

Feb 22nd 2022, 6:00 AM 9,185 Views 19 Comments

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

# burials-bill - Friday 18 February, 2022



# Tuam

# Tuam

Long-awaited Burials Bill to be published next week

Feb 18th 2022, 2:58 PM 12,617 Views 7 Comments

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

# burials-bill - Friday 24 December, 2021


# Burials Bill
# Burials Bill
Tuam site may finally be excavated in 2022 - five years after 'significant' human remains found
Dec 24th 2021, 12:05 AM 11,817 Views 0 Comments
• 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
• 'We've been totally vindicated': State admits rights of Mother & Baby Home survivors were breached
• Over 30 experts ask O'Gorman to change redress scheme so it considers 'impact of early trauma'

# burials-bill - Wednesday 10 November, 2021



# Tuam

# Tuam

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

Nov 10th 2021, 5:19 PM 15,531 Views 11 Comments

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

# burials-bill - Sunday 7 November, 2021


# The Missing Children
# The Missing Children
'Four years on and still no action': Call for Tuam mother and baby home site to be excavated
Nov 7th 2021, 7:00 AM 17,885 Views 20 Comments
• 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
• Illegal adoptees 'forced to break the law' by using their falsified birth certificates
• 'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes

# burials-bill - Wednesday 26 May, 2021



# Cork

# Cork

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

Updated May 26th 2021, 2:18 PM 20,782 Views 23 Comments

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”.

# burials-bill - Tuesday 27 April, 2021



# Burials Bill

# Burials Bill

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

Updated Apr 27th 2021, 6:15 PM 15,835 Views 6 Comments

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.

# burials-bill - Wednesday 14 April, 2021


# Burials Bill
# Burials Bill
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
Updated Apr 14th 2021, 6:00 PM 18,557 Views 27 Comments
• 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'
• 'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes

# Burials Bill
# Burials Bill
'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes
Apr 14th 2021, 12:05 AM 10,804 Views 21 Comments
• 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
• Philomena Lee among women taking legal action against findings in Mother and Baby Home report
• Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs

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