'The shame was not theirs – it was ours': Full text of Taoiseach's apology to mother and baby home survivors
It comes following a five-year investigation by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.
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It comes following a five-year investigation by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.
Ava Stapleton had to make a stark choice when she was a pregnant 17 year old: give up her baby or have a shotgun wedding.
If the constitution is the problem, then the models previously used such as the Constitutional Convention and the Citizens Assembly should be utilised to address the issue, writes Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
The agenda for the meeting included the Eighth Amendment and the possibility of a visit to Ireland by Pope Francis.
The Senator who proposed the bill said its passing marks “another progressive step in Ireland’s long journey of separation between Church and State.”
Diarmuid Martin has raised concerns about growing hostilities between the Church and State.
In his most significant speech to date, Enda Kenny was hugely critical of the Vatican following the publication of the Cloyne report. Today marks the first anniversary of that speech.
Dublin’s Archbishop Martin adds that the Celtic Tiger fooled us into thinking ‘we had attained something more sophisticated’.