# tuam-babies - Saturday 31 August, 2019
Family members of the 796 babies who died and survivors of the home held a peaceful protest last month.
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# tuam-babies - Saturday 29 December, 2018
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
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# tuam-babies - Tuesday 23 October, 2018
The Government has been offered €2.5 million by the Bon Secours Sisters, who ran the home, towards the excavation.
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# tuam-babies - Monday 27 August, 2018
After meeting Minister Zappone the Pope referenced the encounter in a speech.
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# tuam-babies - Friday 17 August, 2018
Erin Darcy says the names of the children should be listed at the grave site.
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# tuam-babies - Wednesday 6 December, 2017
The commission has asked for an year extension to its deadline to publish its full findings.
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# tuam-babies - 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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# tuam-babies - Thursday 1 June, 2017
We need a “comprehensive understanding into the truth of what happened in our country,” Zappone said.
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# tuam-babies - Saturday 20 May, 2017
Decisions are to be made over what is to happen with the exhumation of remains from the Tuam site, those affected say.
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# tuam-babies - Wednesday 12 April, 2017
The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors called it a “shameful decision”.
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# tuam-babies - Monday 13 March, 2017
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Church needs to reflect on the commitment it made in 2002.
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# tuam-babies - Friday 10 March, 2017
Corless and some former residents of the home spoke to Ryan Tubridy this evening.
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“Age should not diminish responsibility,” said the Independent Alliance TD.
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# tuam-babies - 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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# tuam-babies - 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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# tuam-babies - Monday 6 March, 2017
A UN Committee added that the Eighth Amendment “unduly restricts access to abortion”.
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The Taoiseach said it was up to the coroner and everyone else involved to decide on the next steps.
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# tuam-babies - Sunday 5 March, 2017
Bishop Brendan Leahy was challenged by a woman at today’s Citizens’ Assembly.
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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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# tuam-babies - 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.
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Historian Catherine Corless has shared her painstaking records of every single child whose death was registered to the home.
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TheJournal.ie finds a town reeling from confirmation of the truth hidden for generations in a muddy plot.
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# tuam-babies - Friday 3 March, 2017
Mother and Baby Homes Commission finds children’s remains at Tuam site – it’s the Fix.
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“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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In a statement, the Commission said it is “shocked by the discovery” and its investigation is continuing.
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# tuam-babies - Monday 13 April, 2015
Historian Catherine Corless and some mother and baby home survivors have been looking back at the time the story broke last year.
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# tuam-babies - Friday 9 January, 2015
Survivors of mother and baby homes were given clarity today on the powers that will be given to the commission of inquiry.
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# tuam-babies - Saturday 15 November, 2014
James Reilly isn’t so sure.
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# tuam-babies - Thursday 13 November, 2014
Minister James Reilly hopes to bring the terms of reference to Cabinet in the near future.
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# tuam-babies - Monday 10 November, 2014
It is not believed. however, that the plot holds any more bodies than previously disclosed.
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# tuam-babies - Sunday 19 October, 2014
Director Saskia Weber said she is hopeful more religious figures will come forward.
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# tuam-babies - Monday 13 October, 2014
“If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried”
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# tuam-babies - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
The handing over of infant remains was legal under the Anatomy Act 1832 so as to provide “legal cadavers” for medical research.
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# tuam-babies - Monday 14 July, 2014
The letter details how one hospital was struggling to find foster mothers for children.
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# tuam-babies - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
The IHREC wants strong powers for the commission of investigation.
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# tuam-babies - Saturday 28 June, 2014
In the course of compiling a book about the abuse of children in industrial schools, I came face to face with one of the darkest chapters in Ireland’s history.
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