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# state-files - 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.
# state-files - Thursday 1 January, 2015
Government was worried about hiking up tax on booze in 1984 because we were so broke...
… but they did it anyway.
# state-files - Wednesday 31 December, 2014
Taoiseach's office had to confirm that 'Éire' would NOT be removed from Irish stamps in 1982
Questions were asked whether An Post should be given an “entirely free hand” in the designing of stamps.
# state-files - Sunday 28 December, 2014
Ireland wanted to sell water to Saudi Arabia for $5 a barrel in the 1980s
There was one problem… Japan also wanted to.
# state-files - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
Number of maternity homes a difficulty for mother and baby inquiry
The Commission have been asked to include a wide range of institutions within their scope of their inquiry.
# state-files - Monday 14 July, 2014
This 1940s letter describes the 'decent class' of unmarried mothers who were 'first offenders'
The letter details how one hospital was struggling to find foster mothers for children.
Death rate of babies at Tuam mother and baby home was double the rate of other homes
The returns from local authorities, disqualifying Dublin, shows that 17% of babies under the age of one died in registered maternity homes that year.
# state-files - Sunday 22 June, 2014
Here's a list of maternity homes in Ireland in 1947
Under the Maternity Homes Act 1934 every local authority in Ireland had to register the maternity homes in the county with the Department of Health.
# state-files - Thursday 12 June, 2014
Department of Health says it will return state files to National Archive
The records are there for anybody who wants to view them – unless there are personal details involved.
State files removed from National Archive following mother and baby home revelations Exclusive
Over 40 other state documents recalled by the Department of Health have yet to be returned.
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THERE HAS BEEN a mixed reaction to the government’s decision to extend paid parental leave by three weeks due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The extension applies to both mothers and fathers but there has also been calls this morning for single parent families to benefit.
Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon has said that children in single parent families should also be considered and benefit from the same amount of leave.
Two-parent families can now avail of a combined 10 weeks leave and Gannon says that the children of single-parents should also benefit from the same amount of time with a parent.
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