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Saturday 26 September 2020
The report has been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
Thomas Kinsella and Michal Lipson will also receive honorary degrees.
The Government has been offered €2.5 million by the Bon Secours Sisters, who ran the home, towards the excavation.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil today that he made a private visit to Tuam on his way home from a conference in Galway recently.
A vigil to remember babies who died at the home is being held this afternoon.
Visual artist Katie Moore has created a piece based on Catherine Corless’s Tuam Mother and Baby Home discovery.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
The Awards aim to recognise the achievements of the country’s everyday heroes.
The report said it would be particularly difficult to identify “commingled remains” and the remains of children under two.
Her research led to the discovery of human remains at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam.
Catherine Corless is calling for a full investigation into a former Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Galway.
Decisions are to be made over what is to happen with the exhumation of remains from the Tuam site, those affected say.
The Commission into Mother and Baby Homes wrote to Minister Katherine Zappone before the ‘very shocking’ news broke.
Corless and some former residents of the home spoke to Ryan Tubridy this evening.
Galway County Council has said no remains were found when the housing estate and playground were being built.
The Taoiseach said it was up to the coroner and everyone else involved to decide on the next steps.
Bishop Brendan Leahy was challenged by a woman at today’s Citizens’ Assembly.
TheJournal.ie finds a town reeling from confirmation of the truth hidden for generations in a muddy plot.
“So many things get covered up these days, I am just so thankful that this has come out”.
A significant amount of human remains were found in sewage chambers at a site first located by researcher Catherine Corless.
Historian Catherine Corless and some mother and baby home survivors have been looking back at the time the story broke last year.
To understand what happened, it is vital to hold inquests into the deaths of all those buried at the site of the former home.
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.
AFTER A COLD week, another frosty few days are ahead of us.
Temperatures are set to drop to as low as -2 degrees tonight, according to Met Éireann.
Conditions will be dry and clear, but there will be widespread frost.
So, as the autumn weather is most certainly upon us, we want to know: Have you turned the heating on this week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Sunshine and patchy clouds
Max: 13 °C
Min: 1 °C
Clouds and sun
Max: 14 °C
Min: 6 °C
Mostly cloudy with spotty showers
Max: 16 °C
Min: 6 °C
