‘The State failed you, the mothers and children in these homes’ – Micheál Martin

Historian and Tuam mother and baby home survivors unhappy with report and apology

What emerges from the files, and from the graves of the unregarded innocents, is a dark story that will take some time to absorb into the official narratives of independent Ireland

Minister says it would be inappropriate to publish 3,000 page report before Christmas

Legislation would allow for exhumation, identification, and reburial of bodies

Historian hopes commission on mother-and-baby homes will reveal ‘whole truth’

Commission set up following her uncovering of 796 child deaths at Tuam Home

Topics included ‘False allegations of child abuse against the Catholic Church, including homicide’

Campaigners say move puts pressure on State to act after commission report delayed

‘There was still ample opportunity for us as a mother and daughter to come together, but the system certainly stopped that’

Along with the chronic physical illnesses of diabetes and fibromyalgia, Emma Donoghue (26) has had postnatal depression and anorexia to contend with. But life is slowly getting better

Unthinkable: Shame has a ‘Newtonian force’ for good or bad, says Prof Sally R Munt

Art exhibition will display work of 20 artists in University College Cork

The Traveller Pride Awards are co-ordinated by the Irish Traveller Movement

Tuam home commission dismisses archaeologist’s suggestion of ‘burial vault’

Historian whose work led to establishment of commission says ‘the whole truth’ is out

Minister for Children asks special rapporteur to come back within eight weeks

Day-long discussions involved Dr Catherine Corless and Tuam Home Survivors Network

Michael O’Flaherty was born in the mother and baby home in 1948 and spent 10 years in a foster home not knowing who his parents were

DNA samples from elderly or frail survivors should be ‘banked’ for future identification

Minister for Children says second extension granted to allow for ‘comprehensive analysis’

Commission of investigation to seek additional year to complete final report

Legislation needed as excavation of mass grave never done in Ireland before

Galway historian had been given no inkling of the decision when she met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Monday night

Decision to excavate and exhume site of Tuam mother and baby home welcomed

Minister asked Pope Francis to ‘demonstrate remorse’ for treatment of woman, children with swift action

Names of 796 infants buried in Tuam read aloud at site of former Mother and Baby home

Minister addresses him in the language of her forebears and Francis replies in English

Historian says she will ‘stand with the babies’

Historian Catherine Corless calls on Pope Francis to make a public apology

It is unacceptable that confusion over site has been allowed drag on for four years

Gatekeepers must give women an equal role to ensure their fair participation in society

Eyre Square to be transformed into a ‘festival garden’ with series of events lined up for city

Need to atone for Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes, Tuam meeting hears

Lavinia Kerwick and Catherine Corless among presenters of RTÉ’s sprawling documentary

‘There is the possibility that death certificates were falsified’, says Galway historian

Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

Irish Coast Guard, Tuam historian and people of Ballaghaderreen among the winners

Galway historian calls for full exhumation of remains of babies on site of Tuam home

Zappone to examine report from UCD-TCD scientists on DNA extraction at burial site