Bethany

Women and children ‘stigmatised’ and ‘endangered’ by ‘culture of hypocrisy and judgment’

Matron believed children of unmarried mothers ‘tended to be weak and prone to illness’, commission finds

Three-quarters of all children born in or admitted to Bessborough in 1943 died in infancy

Clare Smith (30s) and Bethany (3) were killed in collision between quad bike and tractor

Exceptional length and general election flagged as reasons that could stall publication

Commission of investigation to seek additional year to complete final report

Ceremony hears call for more work to be done to secure the handing over of institutional records to the State

Bob Geldof offers support as 9,000 people set to sleep outside in freezing conditions

Monkstown down three international players as they face Belfast Harlequins away

Ceremony at Mount Jerome cemetery for young who died at mother and child home

Background: Bethany Home survivors are excluded from the compensation scheme

One company says a game made from wood will do the trick

Call made in letter to Taoiseach by a former top official with HSE child and family services

Pope Francis has indicated a need to have women in more serious roles in church life

There is a wealth of great books about the world of business just waiting to be read

Commission to focus on 14 homes, with report to be completed by 2018

Inquiry to examine Catholic and Protestant homes between 1922 and early 1990s

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Campaign groups concerned over possible exclusion of Westbank Orphanage

House of Commons recalled to vote on involvement in effort to combat militants in Iraq

Irish campaigners meet MEPs in Brussels