For 34 years Madeleine Walsh lived with her secret in shame... Now she wants schoolchildren to learn about the horrors of Ireland’s past, writes Aoife Kelleher
Substantive collection of essays covers a range of topics including Alice Munro, mother and baby homes, and the troubling intersection between life and art
Probation report says Leighton Morrison (49), who ran three dance schools, at high risk of reoffending
The comic and TV presenter on working with Des Bishop, being a Traveller comedian and seeing Ireland in a new light
Five sets of skeletal remains are believed to predate mother and baby home as operation continues
Samples have been taken from 18 elderly or vulnerable people to help identify any remains that may be found at former mother and baby home
Excavation of site of former mother and baby institution began in July and is likely to take at least two years
Under the Institutional Burials Act, cousins can not provide DNA for identification purposes at the Tuam Mother and Baby home excavation
Introduction of alcohol warning labels to be deferred for two years, Ministers to hear
Radio: The Radio 1 presenter is in jolly form during outside broadcasts, while Ray D’Arcy shows his serious side
Residents of the old St Patrick’s Infant and Dietetic Hospital are excluded from redress schemes despite its role in adoptions
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense
Access to the entire site is now closed off to the public, with 24-hour security also in place
The excavation will begin on Monday, some 11 years after research by local historian Catherine Corless revealed 796 children died at the institution
Children buried at former mother and baby home site ‘got no dignity in life and got no dignity in death’, sister says
Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order
Taoiseach condemns Russian invasion as frontline workers honoured at event
Effort to involve DNA identification process ‘on a scale never done before’ in Ireland, O’Gorman says
Ebb and flow of emigrant lives writ large at departures – festive chapter closes for diaspora
Umbrella group representing 25 snail farms, says that supporting sector is ‘a no-brainer’
HSE says falling case numbers among older people due to boosters a ‘cause for hope’
Businesses and recruiters struggle to find staff in a market that now favours the worker
Only those who spent over six months in mother and baby homes as infants eligible
Historian’s work is the subject of a documentary to be broadcast this week
Inspection into St Columba’s Hospital in Thomastown found ‘fire safety risks persist’
No explicit reference made to congregation’s role in running Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Maura McHugh recalls her fun-loving sister who was killed in the September 11th attacks
Net assets of one religious congregation found to be more than €1 billion in 2009
Survivor say evidence was misrepresented and call for accountability of commission
Gardaí appeal to anyone in Tuam with information to make contact
National Ambulance Service to double its capacity from next week to speed up vaccines to the housebound
Businessman and Rivada Networks’ case relates to item on US broadcaster about 5G proposal
State-run psychiatric hospitals were the single greatest contributor to coercive confinement in mid-20th century Ireland
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