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Tuam

tuam babies

Second burial ground found at Tuam mother and baby home

10 Nov 2014

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tuam babies

Just one priest agreed to be interviewed for documentary on mother-and-baby homes

19 Oct 2014

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Tuam

Opinion: Questions remain unanswered over the Tuam mother-and-baby home

Donal O'Keeffe

10 Oct 2014

345

findings

Here's the latest information about the Tuam mother-and-baby home

16 Jul 2014

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Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.

14 Jul 2014

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mother and baby home

Death rate of babies at Tuam mother and baby home was double the rate of other homes

14 Jul 2014

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new boss

Mother-and-baby home survivors concerned over ministerial switch-around

13 Jul 2014

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the commission

Who will chair the mother-and-baby inquiry? The Minister's been given a list of candidates

10 Jul 2014

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the commission

Want a say on the mother-and-baby inquiry? Midday today is the deadline...

30 Jun 2014

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a first mother's story

'There's a nurse leaving the room with my baby... I said to my sister “where’s she gone?”....'

29 Jun 2014

73.2k

104

Institutional Abuse

Opinion: After two decades as a journalist, no project I’ve handled has been quite as harrowing

Bette Browne

28 Jun 2014

517

widening scope

It's not just Tuam... Mother-and-baby probe needs to examine at least 100 institutions, Minister told

25 Jun 2014

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maternity homes

Government reminded local authorities of their obligation to report infant deaths in mother and baby homes in 1946

22 Jun 2014

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mother and baby home

Here are the state files recalled from the National Archives by the Department of Health

21 Jun 2014

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terms of reference

Here's how to make a submission to the mother and baby homes inquiry

18 Jun 2014

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Overseas

Transitions Optical warns of 60 redundancies as work moves to Asia

18 Jun 2014

7.0k

fathers

Opinion: Where does fatherhood feature in story of mother-and-baby homes?

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

14 Jun 2014

857

Homes

Opinion: It is a bittersweet time for victims of institutional abuse – the least we can do is listen

Mairead Healy

13 Jun 2014

mother-and-baby homes

Opinion: Abuse and neglect are being hidden in plain sight – but will we open our eyes?

Donal O'Keeffe

13 Jun 2014

170

Children

Department of Health says it will return state files to National Archive

12 Jun 2014

8.8k

talk to us

"We're the ones who lived this our whole lives": Mother-and-baby home residents have some advice for the Government

11 Jun 2014

9.8k

Inquiry

Bethany Home, where 222 children died, to be included in mother and baby home investigation

10 Jun 2014

20.1k

Mother and Baby

Bishops: We are reminded of a time when unmarried mothers were rejected by Church

10 Jun 2014

11.4k

147

Reaction

'Time to shed light on another dark period': Broad welcome for mother-and-baby investigation

10 Jun 2014

9.8k

Mother and Baby

Taoiseach: If we don't do this properly, Ireland's soul will lie "in an unmarked grave"

10 Jun 2014

11.5k

109

Tuam

Commission of Investigation to examine mother and baby homes

10 Jun 2014

5.2k

tuam babies

"For anybody to feign shock at this information I think is to be disingenuous" --- Mary Lou

10 Jun 2014

12.3k

tuam babies

Explainer: What is happening with the possible mass grave of children in Tuam?

10 Jun 2014

57.8k

202

tuam babies

Taoiseach: 'I think there is much more to this than one mother and baby home'

10 Jun 2014

7.0k

800 babies

Tuam mass grave to be discussed at Cabinet this morning

10 Jun 2014

3.5k

News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Monday

9 Jun 2014

20.6k

Injections

Ten mother and baby homes carried out vaccine trials on almost 300 children - report

9 Jun 2014

38.1k

183

800 babies

Tusla given "sensitive, personal" records from three mother-and-baby homes

9 Jun 2014

10.7k

full inquiry

Education Minister backs Archbishop's call for mother-and-baby homes investigation

9 Jun 2014

4.2k

800 babies

Archbishop calls for 'full-bodied investigation' into all mother-and-baby homes

8 Jun 2014

23.3k

433

Children

Opinion: Horror doesn't belong to the past, Ireland's most vulnerable are still marginalised and neglected

Aoife Nolan

8 Jun 2014

352

800 babies

Aaron McKenna: The nation, not just the Church, bears responsibility for horrors of the past

Aaron McKenna

7 Jun 2014

155

161

News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Friday

6 Jun 2014

12.8k

800 babies

Radar tests carried out on Tuam site to find mass grave

6 Jun 2014

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126

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

6 Jun 2014

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