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2023
Excavation of Tuam mother and baby home site one step closer as Advisory Board is chosen
Peter Mulryan, a survivor of the institution, is among those on the new board.
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Sep 28th 2023, 4:31 PM
Red Cross envoy appointed to oversee excavation and exhumation at Tuam mother and baby home
A former INTO general secretary will also lead the negotiation with all religious bodies who had a historical involvement in Mother and Baby Homes.
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May 23rd 2023, 1:01 PM
Tuam mother and baby home site will finally be excavated after Director is appointed next month
Relatives have welcomed the news but said there can be no further delays.
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Jan 7th 2023, 7:30 AM
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Recruitment launched for Director who will oversee excavation of Tuam mother and baby home site
The recovery of remains at the site is expected to begin early next year.
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Nov 25th 2022, 9:13 AM
Redacted Lives: How boys robbing apples, and a local historian, uncovered a dark part of Irish history
The third episode of our new documentary series explores Tuam mother and baby home.
The third episode of our new documentary series explores Tuam mother and baby home
In 1975, two children hiding after being caught robbing apples uncovered what appeared to be piles of tiny bones
Decades later, their discovery was researched by a woman named Catherine Corless - who had no idea of the chain of events she would set into motion
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Nov 24th 2022, 6:00 AM
Independent office to lead excavation of Tuam Mother and Baby Home site
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman proposed the office be set up following the signing into law of the Institutional Burials Act.
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Jul 27th 2022, 5:41 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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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'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
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
'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
'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes
Catherine Corless: Government efforts to help mother and baby homes survivors 'half-hearted'
The final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was published yesterday.
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Jan 13th 2021, 9:41 AM
Philomena Lee says Ireland must ensure mother and baby home 'atrocities' never happen again
Lee also said she is “dismayed” that some details from the Mother and Baby Homes report were leaked.
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Jan 11th 2021, 12:37 PM
Mother and Baby Homes commission submits report on burial of those who died in institutions
The report has been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.
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Mar 16th 2019, 4:58 PM
Excavations at Tuam mother and baby home expected to start in latter half of 2019
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
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Dec 29th 2018, 6:00 AM
Catherine Corless to get honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin today
Thomas Kinsella and Michal Lipson will also receive honorary degrees.
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Dec 7th 2018, 6:20 AM
'Exceptionally important decision': Full forensic excavation of Tuam mother and baby home to take place
The Government has been offered €2.5 million by the Bon Secours Sisters, who ran the home, towards the excavation.
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Oct 23rd 2018, 3:36 PM
Taoiseach to meet Catherine Corless after 'paying respects' at Tuam site
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.
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Sep 25th 2018, 9:26 PM
Corless 'disappointed' pope didn't mention Tuam, says abuse survivors need more than prayers
A vigil to remember babies who died at the home is being held this afternoon.
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Aug 26th 2018, 3:27 PM
'Living with a longterm illness gives you this way of viewing the world'
Visual artist Katie Moore has created a piece based on Catherine Corless’s Tuam Mother and Baby Home discovery.
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Apr 21st 2018, 9:00 PM
Twitter was so emotional after Catherine Corless' win at the People of the Year Awards last night
‘A true Irish hero.’
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Apr 16th 2018, 7:33 AM
Catherine Corless, Rescue 116 crew and Vera Twomey among People of the Year
The Awards aim to recognise the achievements of the country’s everyday heroes.
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Apr 15th 2018, 9:33 PM
Report sets out five options of what could happen at Tuam
The report said it would be particularly difficult to identify “commingled remains” and the remains of children under two.
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Dec 12th 2017, 3:40 PM
'Fearless' Catherine Corless wins human rights award
Her research led to the discovery of human remains at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam.
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Oct 26th 2017, 5:00 PM
'I'm anxious that every bit of evidence gets out there, just in case it's a carbon copy of Tuam'
Catherine Corless is calling for a full investigation into a former Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Galway.
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Oct 22nd 2017, 9:30 PM
'Something urgent has to be done with the Tuam site - it can't just be left as it is'
Decisions are to be made over what is to happen with the exhumation of remains from the Tuam site, those affected say.
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May 20th 2017, 7:00 AM
'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
'I wasn't shocked, I knew they were there': Catherine Corless receives standing ovation on Late Late
Corless and some former residents of the home spoke to Ryan Tubridy this evening.
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Mar 10th 2017, 10:32 PM
Catherine Corless says more human remains are likely to be buried under Tuam playground
Galway County Council has said no remains were found when the housing estate and playground were being built.
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Mar 8th 2017, 11:42 AM
Enda Kenny says babies at Tuam home were treated like 'some kind of sub-species'
The Taoiseach said it was up to the coroner and everyone else involved to decide on the next steps.
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Mar 6th 2017, 5:03 PM
Catholic bishop: 'We hang our heads in shame' over Tuam mass grave
Bishop Brendan Leahy was challenged by a woman at today’s Citizens’ Assembly.
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Mar 5th 2017, 5:48 PM
No mourning at final resting place of Tuam babies - only an eerie silence
TheJournal.ie finds a town reeling from confirmation of the truth hidden for generations in a muddy plot.
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Mar 4th 2017, 8:05 AM
She was right: How Catherine Corless uncovered what happened in Tuam
“So many things get covered up these days, I am just so thankful that this has come out”.
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Mar 3rd 2017, 6:09 PM
Tuam babies: Next steps in finding the truth behind their deaths
A significant amount of human remains were found in sewage chambers at a site first located by researcher Catherine Corless.
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Mar 3rd 2017, 1:47 PM
'These children need to be remembered': It's almost a year since the Tuam Babies controversy
Historian Catherine Corless and some mother and baby home survivors have been looking back at the time the story broke last year.
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Apr 13th 2015, 9:15 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
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