# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 29 December, 2018
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
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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# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 26 August, 2018
A vigil to remember babies who died at the home is being held this afternoon.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Thursday 26 July, 2018
How to memorialise the past, as well as what health and well-being supports are needed for former residents will be discussed.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 11 July, 2018
There was only ever one thing to do: excavate the site and DNA test the remains without delay, writes Adrienne Corless.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 6 July, 2018
Galway County Council received 799 written submissions on what to do with the Tuam site where a mass grave was found.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 24 June, 2018
The stone will be unveiled next week.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 21 April, 2018
Visual artist Katie Moore has created a piece based on Catherine Corless’s Tuam Mother and Baby Home discovery.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 13 April, 2018
A team of scientists have contradicted an expert technical group over the remains
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# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 20 March, 2018
Derek Leinster said that he believes that instead, Bethany Home survivors should be given redress before many of them die.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 17 February, 2018
The burials took place between 1922 and 1998.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 12 December, 2017
The report said it would be particularly difficult to identify “commingled remains” and the remains of children under two.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Thursday 26 October, 2017
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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# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 9 July, 2017
Councillor Francis Timmons spoke to TheJournal.ie about his time at Madonna House mother and baby home two years ago.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 7 July, 2017
“There are currently no known comparative sites, nationally or internationally,” said the Department of Children in a statement.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 12 April, 2017
The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors called it a “shameful decision”.
# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 10 April, 2017
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The Commission into Mother and Baby Homes wrote to Minister Katherine Zappone before the ‘very shocking’ news broke.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
Redressing survivors of Mother and Baby homes needs to avoid the pitfalls of the Residential Institution Redress Board for Industrial and Reformatory School survivors, writes Sinead Pembroke.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 11 March, 2017
Enda Kenny has said he wants to deal with the dark legacies of our past but following his statements this week, he’s still way off the mark, writes Sinead Pembroke.
# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 10 March, 2017
Corless and some former residents of the home spoke to Ryan Tubridy this evening.
# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 8 March, 2017
Galway County Council has said no remains were found when the housing estate and playground were being built.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 7 March, 2017
Minister Zappone has agreed to a small scoping exercise to assess if the mother and baby home investigation can be expanded.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 6 March, 2017
The Taoiseach said it was up to the coroner and everyone else involved to decide on the next steps.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 5 March, 2017
PJ Haverty’s mother spent five years hammering on the door of the Tuam home trying to get the nuns to return her son – instead they gave him away.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 4 March, 2017
A report into ‘destitute Irish girls’ investigated the problem of unmarried pregnant women travelling to England.
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Adaser said that a “shiver went up her back” when she read of the Tuam home news.
TheJournal.ie finds a town reeling from confirmation of the truth hidden for generations in a muddy plot.
Reports about a mass grave first hit the headlines in May of 2014. Here’s what’s happened since.
# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 3 March, 2017
Tuam must not be seen in isolation and unfortunately is only the tip of the iceberg, writes Paul Redmond.
“So many things get covered up these days, I am just so thankful that this has come out”.
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Catherine Corless said that she has the names of 798 children who could be among the remains at the home.
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They did say that they are fully committed to the Commission of Investigation ‘seeking the truth’ about what happened.
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A significant amount of human remains were found in sewage chambers at a site first located by researcher Catherine Corless.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 30 September, 2016
The excavation will take place following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies and the manner in which they were buried.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 7 August, 2016
This week Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone announced it will be two more years before the report is published.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 1 August, 2016
The survivor who wants to bring the case said that it had taken 23 years to get to this point.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 19 July, 2016
They are seeking the remit of the commission to be widened and will hold a protest against it today.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 12 October, 2015
Yesterday Paul Redmond gave an in depth historical look at St Patrick’s mother and baby home in Dublin. Here are some of the local government reports from the time.
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# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 11 October, 2015
Paul Redmond tells us what he has learned about St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin.
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Rain and drizzle this afternoon
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A couple of afternoon thundershowers
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