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'We've been totally vindicated': State admits rights of Mother & Baby Home survivors were breached
'My mother didn't want people to know I existed': One woman's mission to find her identity
'They're waiting for more of us to die': Women whose children were taken react to redress scheme
'She had no choice': High Court told Philomena Lee did not consent to her son being adopted
'Gardaí returned women who escaped': Philomena Lee & Mary Harney challenge Commission in High Court
'No understanding of trauma': Survivors hit out at 6-month rule & legal waiver in redress scheme
Mother and Baby Homes: 34,000 survivors eligible for compensation in €800m redress scheme
40 years of nothing, then a message saying 'I'm your son': Mother & son reunite after 4 decades
UN experts warn Burials Bill may 'create obstacles' to examining deaths at Mother & Baby Homes
Bethany Home survivor Derek Leinster lodges legal proceedings against Irish State
'Will this be Opportunity Lost 2.0?': State must 'learn from mistakes' of past redress schemes
Survivors consider legal action to get health records amid 'bizarre' row with department
Woman's signature forged on letter saying nuns from Mother and Baby Home 'deserve a medal'
Mother and Baby Homes: Two test cases to be heard by High Court later this year
Department 'in breach of EU law' unless it gives health records to Mother and Baby Home survivors
'The dead don't have GDPR rights': Woman considers legal action after department denies info request
'The Irish Handmaid's Tale': Mother and Baby Home survivor says reality was worse than fiction
Mother and Baby Homes: State argues that Philomena Lee and others taking legal action aren't recognisable in report
'Rape' and 'incest' listed as 'current relationship status' options on Commission form
'I am fuming, it's so disrespectful': Survivors react to commissioners' refusal to appear before Oireachtas
How legal threats and the Ryan Commission's legacy impacted Mother and Baby Home inquiry
'Yet another blow to survivors': Women get few answers as Commissioner defends report
'Groundbreaking' legislation will give adopted people access to birth certs and early life information
Geraldine was born in St Patrick's, her sister Pauline was born in Bessborough - 50 years later they found each other
Drew Harris says Mother and Baby Home crimes 'difficult to prosecute' despite reports of rape and incest
'My foster father wiped down everything I touched': Call to tackle racism in social care
'It's a children's burial ground': Expert claims map of Bessborough site is correct
Survivors call plan to build apartments at Bessborough site 'an abhorrent act of desecration'
UN asked to intervene over Ireland's response to 'systemic racism' in mother and baby homes
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes
'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day
Department apologises after 'careless' data breach of people attending mother and baby home redress meetings
'I spent 28 years wondering where my child was, they were 45 minutes down the road'
Department says consulting firm was hired due to 'urgency' in setting up mother and baby home redress scheme
'If the Commission dissolves tomorrow, we'll be denied justice': Survivor says testimony was 'misrepresented'
'My mother gave birth to three children in three mother and baby homes in three years'
UK police refer county home survivor back to gardaí over destruction of testimony
County home survivor told to contact police in England, not gardaí, over destruction of testimony
'A nun poured urine on my head because I snored': Survivors contact DPC and gardaí over destruction of testimony