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Friday 27 November 2020
And what happens to the records now?
The Taoiseach met with survivor and advocacy groups this morning.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman is due to receive the report tomorrow.
Cabinet is expected to discuss the fallout from the controversy over the handling of legislation which was passed last week.
Writer Caelainn Hogan has accessed files that give an insight into life at a Donegal mother-and-baby home known as The Castle.
Family members of the 796 babies who died and survivors of the home held a peaceful protest last month.
Survivors and family members of the dead babies gathered at the site today.
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
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.
How to memorialise the past, as well as what health and well-being supports are needed for former residents will be discussed.
There was only ever one thing to do: excavate the site and DNA test the remains without delay, writes Adrienne Corless.
Galway County Council received 799 written submissions on what to do with the Tuam site where a mass grave was found.
The stone will be unveiled next week.
Visual artist Katie Moore has created a piece based on Catherine Corless’s Tuam Mother and Baby Home discovery.
A team of scientists have contradicted an expert technical group over the remains
Derek Leinster said that he believes that instead, Bethany Home survivors should be given redress before many of them die.
The burials took place between 1922 and 1998.
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.
Councillor Francis Timmons spoke to TheJournal.ie about his time at Madonna House mother and baby home two years ago.
“There are currently no known comparative sites, nationally or internationally,” said the Department of Children in a statement.
The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors called it a “shameful decision”.
The Commission into Mother and Baby Homes wrote to Minister Katherine Zappone before the ‘very shocking’ news broke.
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.
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.
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.
Minister Zappone has agreed to a small scoping exercise to assess if the mother and baby home investigation can be expanded.
The Taoiseach said it was up to the coroner and everyone else involved to decide on the next steps.
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.
A report into ‘destitute Irish girls’ investigated the problem of unmarried pregnant women travelling to England.
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.
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”.
Catherine Corless said that she has the names of 798 children who could be among the remains at the home.
They did say that they are fully committed to the Commission of Investigation ‘seeking the truth’ about what happened.
ONE OF THE most eagerly anticipated nights of the Irish TV year is finally here, with not even 2020 being able to stop the broadcast of the Late Late Toy Show.
Covid-19 restrictions mean it will be a different kind of show this year, but it still promises to be a special night – perhaps more so than usual given the year we’ve had.
For the day that’s in it, we’re asking: Will you watch the Late Late Toy Show?
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