# tuam - Wednesday 17 April, 2019
The commission said the affidavit from the congregation that ran the mother and baby home was “speculative, inaccurate and misleading”.
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# tuam - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
That’s according to a confidential letter to a government minister.
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# tuam - Saturday 16 March, 2019
The report has been submitted to Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.
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# tuam - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
The first excavations at the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home was expected to start in the latter half of 2019.
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# tuam - Sunday 20 January, 2019
Donie Smith hit 0-8 for the winners against Galway.
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# tuam - Saturday 29 December, 2018
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
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# tuam - Thursday 1 November, 2018
Minister Katherine Zappone will deliver a keynote speech at the event which is exploring adoption and institutional abuses.
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# tuam - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
The religious order has pledged €2.5 million towards the works which will cost between €6-€13m.
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# tuam - 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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# tuam - Sunday 26 August, 2018
A vigil to remember babies who died at the home is being held this afternoon.
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# tuam - 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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# tuam - 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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# tuam - 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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# tuam - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
Gardaí in Galway have thanked the public for their assistance.
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# tuam - 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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The decision from Galway City Council to grant permission for the betting shop has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.
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# tuam - Friday 13 April, 2018
A team of scientists have contradicted an expert technical group over the remains
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# tuam - Thursday 12 April, 2018
The garda was arrested on 2 April.
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# tuam - Monday 8 January, 2018
The Bethany Home Survivors’ Group has identified over 200 children from the home who were buried at Mount Jerome cemetery.
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# tuam - Saturday 16 December, 2017
Survivor Peter Mulryan was born in the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway and lived in the institute for four and half years.
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# tuam - 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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# tuam - 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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# tuam - Sunday 22 October, 2017
Catherine Corless is calling for a full investigation into a former Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Galway.
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# tuam - Saturday 19 August, 2017
Shaun Cunniffe said that the plaque should be removed to a museum so that people can discuss the issues around it.
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# tuam - 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 - Wednesday 7 June, 2017
Survivors of the Magdalene Laundries gathered outside the Dáil yesterday calling for a truth commission into ALL homes around the country.
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# tuam - 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 - 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 - 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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# tuam - Monday 13 March, 2017
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Church needs to reflect on the commitment it made in 2002.
# tuam - 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.
# tuam - Friday 10 March, 2017
Corless and some former residents of the home spoke to Ryan Tubridy this evening.
“Age should not diminish responsibility,” said the Independent Alliance TD.
# tuam - Wednesday 8 March, 2017
He also described what happened to mother and baby home survivors as” unchristian cruelty”.
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Galway County Council has said no remains were found when the housing estate and playground were being built.
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# tuam - 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 - 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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# tuam - 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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# tuam - 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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