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# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 31 August, 2019
'Those who were denied a voice for too long will continue to fight for justice for the lost children of Tuam'
Family members of the 796 babies who died and survivors of the home held a peaceful protest last month.
# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 25 August, 2019
'Ghosts in their own country': Government accused of 'wall of silence' over Tuam babies
Survivors and family members of the dead babies gathered at the site today.
# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
Religious order that ran Tuam says it was 'under supervision, direction and inspection' of Irish State
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 29 December, 2018
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 26 August, 2018
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Thursday 26 July, 2018
'Putting our shameful past behind us': Mother and baby home forum meets for the first time
How to memorialise the past, as well as what health and well-being supports are needed for former residents will be discussed.
# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 11 July, 2018
Adrienne Corless: 'It looks like the consultation facilitators dug deep to find resistance to full excavation'
There was only ever one thing to do: excavate the site and DNA test the remains without delay, writes Adrienne Corless.
# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 6 July, 2018
Tuam: Ex-residents and families want further excavation and DNA analysis
Galway County Council received 799 written submissions on what to do with the Tuam site where a mass grave was found.
# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 24 June, 2018
Over 70 babies who died at Bethany Home - and one mother - to be named on new memorial stone
The stone will be unveiled next week.
# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 21 April, 2018
'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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 13 April, 2018
Experts say Tuam remains should be able to be identified using advanced DNA technology
A team of scientists have contradicted an expert technical group over the remains
# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 20 March, 2018
Mother and baby home activist refuses to join selection panel for survivors' forum
Derek Leinster said that he believes that instead, Bethany Home survivors should be given redress before many of them die.
# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 17 February, 2018
Hunt for details on child burials at Bessboro mother and baby home
The burials took place between 1922 and 1998.
# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 12 December, 2017
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Thursday 26 October, 2017
'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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 9 July, 2017
Home survivor sent photos from time there after TheJournal.ie story
Councillor Francis Timmons spoke to TheJournal.ie about his time at Madonna House mother and baby home two years ago.
# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 7 July, 2017
The 'mixing of remains' will make it very difficult to identify babies at Tuam site
“There are currently no known comparative sites, nationally or internationally,” said the Department of Children in a statement.
# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 12 April, 2017
'Immoral and repulsive': Fury at Zappone's refusal for redress for mother and baby home survivors
The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors called it a “shameful decision”.
# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 10 April, 2017
'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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
'After hours of questioning by “experts”, Theresa was left traumatised and had to make her own way home'
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 11 March, 2017
'Enda, parents sent children to industrial schools because a court compelled them or they had no choice'
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
'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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Wednesday 8 March, 2017
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 7 March, 2017
Watch: 'We took their babies and gifted them, sold them, trafficked them and starved them'
Minister Zappone has agreed to a small scoping exercise to assess if the mother and baby home investigation can be expanded.
# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 6 March, 2017
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 5 March, 2017
'You were just a bastard in their eyes. But they can't hide from the truth now'
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Saturday 4 March, 2017
Mother and baby homes believed to give Irish women 'every chance of keeping their secret'
A report into ‘destitute Irish girls’ investigated the problem of unmarried pregnant women travelling to England.
'I was so badly whipped I had to be taken to hospital' - Mother and baby home survivor
Adaser said that a “shiver went up her back” when she read of the Tuam home news.
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.
Tuam babies: What's been happening since the mass grave revelations three years ago?
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
Castlepollard Mother and Baby Home survivor: 'We're not shocked by the news'
Tuam must not be seen in isolation and unfortunately is only the tip of the iceberg, writes Paul Redmond.
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”.
'It wasn't a home, it was a prison': Former residents from Tuam mother and baby home react
Catherine Corless said that she has the names of 798 children who could be among the remains at the home.
Nuns who ran Tuam home have 'no comment' to make on today's revelations
They did say that they are fully committed to the Commission of Investigation ‘seeking the truth’ about what happened.
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.
# mother-and-baby-home - Friday 30 September, 2016
Excavation to take place at site of alleged mass grave at Tuam
The excavation will take place following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies and the manner in which they were buried.
# mother-and-baby-home - Sunday 7 August, 2016
Two years after it was set up, what's happening with the mother and baby home inquiry?
This week Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone announced it will be two more years before the report is published.
# mother-and-baby-home - Monday 1 August, 2016
Bethany Home survivor takes first step in bringing case to human rights court
The survivor who wants to bring the case said that it had taken 23 years to get to this point.
# mother-and-baby-home - Tuesday 19 July, 2016
Mother and baby home survivors say their community is "torn in half" over inquiry terms
They are seeking the remit of the commission to be widened and will hold a protest against it today.
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