The beginning of the fall of the Catholic Church in Ireland
Bishop Eamonn Casey’s life and career came apart 30 years ago today
Catherine Corless
Excavation at former Tuam mother and baby home to be one of ‘most complex’ ever
Effort to involve DNA identification process ‘on a scale never done before’ in Ireland, O’Gorman says
Founder of girls’ support group wins Red Cross Humanitarian of Year award
Tammy Darcy’s Shona Project also wins Red Cross Innovation for Change award
Catherine Corless honoured by Red Cross for her work on Tuam babies
Historian’s work is the subject of a documentary to be broadcast this week
‘I was a Tuam baby’: Boston man appeals for records detailing his past
Michael Byrne says knowing more about his past would give him ‘a little more peace’
Woman was 70 when she found out her early years were spent in Tuam home
‘I’m terrified of the dark. I always feel that that goes back to the mother and baby home’
Mother and baby homes commission accused of ‘disrespect’
Survivor say evidence was misrepresented and call for accountability of commission
Order behind Tuam home defends dealings with commission
Roderic O’Gorman writes to hundreds of survivors telling them ‘you are believed’
Remains of mothers and babies should be ‘returned’ to families
Mass graves should be protected and preserved, Oireachtas committee to be told
The Secret Teacher: This is not the time to limit ourselves to online traditional school
Truly fantastic interactions occur if teachers are brave enough to experiment with the technology
Michael Viney: My 1964 No Birthright series on unmarried mothers left half the story untold
‘I was perhaps totally misled by the appearance of the convent,’ journalist says
Galway council apologises for its role in running of Tuam mother and baby home
Council ‘fully committed’ to providing survivors with access to archives and records
Mother and baby homes: Higgins says State must bear ultimate responsibility
Needs of survivors must be responded to generously and without delay, says President
Left with the blame for the sins of the past, few in Tuam want to speak openly
Many unsure what to do next about hundreds of baby remains in home’s grounds
State apology: Taoiseach’s full statement on Mother and Baby Homes
‘The State failed you, the mothers and children in these homes’ – Micheál Martin
Catherine Corless: 'There doesn’t seem to be a lot' in Mother and Baby report
Historian and Tuam mother and baby home survivors unhappy with report and apology
The Irish Times view on the Mother and Baby Homes report: a culture of silence and shame
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
Publication of Mother and Baby Homes report delayed until January
Minister says it would be inappropriate to publish 3,000 page report before Christmas
Memo to Cabinet expected on reburial of Tuam remains
Legislation would allow for exhumation, identification, and reburial of bodies
Report will ‘release’ survivors from shame, says Catherine Corless
Historian hopes commission on mother-and-baby homes will reveal ‘whole truth’
Catherine Corless sceptical about delay in publishing Mother and Baby Home report
Commission set up following her uncovering of 796 child deaths at Tuam Home
Seminar in Dublin church on Tuam children’s home cancelled due to Covid-19
Topics included ‘False allegations of child abuse against the Catholic Church, including homicide’
Vatican backs campaign for reburial of Tuam babies’ remains
Campaigners say move puts pressure on State to act after commission report delayed
Woman cannot recall Tuam mother-and-baby home but ‘my body remembers’
‘There was still ample opportunity for us as a mother and daughter to come together, but the system certainly stopped that’
‘Mum would put a plate of food in front of me and I would cry my eyes out’
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
When is it okay to shame another person?
Unthinkable: Shame has a ‘Newtonian force’ for good or bad, says Prof Sally R Munt
Exhibition to honour those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries
Art exhibition will display work of 20 artists in University College Cork
Ireland’s Got Talent finalist Sharyn Ward wins annual Traveller award
The Traveller Pride Awards are co-ordinated by the Irish Traveller Movement
Mother-and-baby home inquiry: hundreds of burial plots unknown
Tuam home commission dismisses archaeologist’s suggestion of ‘burial vault’
Corless ‘very, very pleased’ with findings of Tuam report
Historian whose work led to establishment of commission says ‘the whole truth’ is out
Tuam remains: Terms of report on DNA test options published
Minister for Children asks special rapporteur to come back within eight weeks
University launches Tuam mother-and-baby home oral history project
Day-long discussions involved Dr Catherine Corless and Tuam Home Survivors Network
Tuam survivor: ‘I didn’t know who I was’
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
Tuam home survivors want DNA samples to be taken
DNA samples from elderly or frail survivors should be ‘banked’ for future identification
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