Mother & baby homes

Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry’s books include Blackrock College, Switzers, embassies and hospitals

Drug giant rang up worldwide sales of more than £29 billion last year. Its refusal to contribute a cent to State’s redress scheme is inexcusable

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Vaccine and baby-milk trials on children living in the homes persisted for decades — from the 1930s into 1970s

Clinical trials carried out between 1934 and 1973 centred on childhood vaccines and infant milk products

O’Gorman urged drug firm to accept corporate responsibility for way tests were carried out on mother-and-baby home children

Amendments likely to restrict scope of proposed redress scheme

Married women who gave birth in the institutions would be eligible for the minimum €5,000 payment

Writer on learning to read, reluctance to retire and his latest novel Old God’s Time about the scars of childhood abuse

Bill to establish scheme for those who spent ‘not less than’ six months in institutions passed by 73 votes to 62

Taoiseach recalled minister almost in tears as she addressed Cabinet meeting

Following the work of Catherine Corless, commission found 978 children died at home

People Before Profit TD says he does not know how long he spent in institution

Podcast review: Over the course of six episodes, Redacted Lives hears from women who were forced into mother and baby homes

If inquiries are victim-led, are they in some sense drifting into social theatre rather than wholly impartial ascertainment of truth?

Roderic O’Gorman rejected attempts by the Oireachtas committee on children to amend the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 and so provide redress to thousands excluded from its scope

Kathleen Funchion says solicitors should cease trying ‘to get money from very vulnerable people’

Survivors of mother and baby homes could receive as little as €5,000 in redress scheme

Minister for Children accused of ‘failing to learn’ from previous ‘debacles’ but O’Gorman says provisions avoid ‘re-traumatisation’ with tens of thousands more beneficiaries

On our trip to San Francisco we also discovered that the youthful looking John-Boy from the Waltons was in fact 71

New book shares the harrowing experiences of three women at Cork mother and baby institution

Complaints include claims of sexual and physical abuse and illegal medical treatments

Proposal go to Cabinet in April but interim payments for women ruled out

Objections to scheme covering those in homes for less than six months as children

MWB Two’s plans for Cork site refused over Ordnance Survey Ireland 1950 map label

Legion of Mary founder a tireless worker in aiding single mothers to raise own children

Survivors say Bessborough land should be bought following refusal of housing plan

Cork group attempted to find out burial locations of more than 850 babies

Minister urged to re-engage with groups representing survivors of mother and baby homes

Experts in childhood trauma say scheme does not take ‘best practice’ into account

Government widened scheme recommended by working group which only covered 19,000 survivors

Mary Lou McDonald accuses Government of ‘doubling down’ on commission’s ‘failures’

Cases beging brought by retired nurse Philomena Lee and Galway-based Mary Harney

Survivors may not receive redress payment until early 2023

Scheme agreed by Cabinet to be available to 34,000 survivors at estimated cost of €800m

Some 50,000 former residents will be eligible for compensation from wider scheme

Highly sensitive archive of commission of investigation held using ‘legacy’ technology

NI truth panel: ‘We came across four brothers who didn’t know of each other’

Truth recovery group also advises inclusion of Magdalene laundries, workhouses in inquiry

Women who stayed less than six months and those resident after 1974 set to be included