Tuam
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Tuam remains: Terms of report on DNA test options published
- Irish News
- February 13, 2019, 12:42
Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has published the terms of reference for an examination of legal options regarding DNA sampling in connection (...)

University launches Tuam mother-and-baby home oral history project
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 8, 2019, 01:46
A project aimed at collecting the personal histories of people born at the Tuam mother-and-baby home was launched in Galway on Thursday. President of(...)

Tuam survivor: ‘I didn’t know who I was’
- Social Affairs
- February 7, 2019, 16:00
Ann O’Flaherty remembers the first night she met her husband, Michael, at the Irish Club on Parnell Square in Dublin in October 1973 and the walk home(...)

Tuam home survivors want DNA samples to be taken
- Social Affairs
- January 29, 2019, 11:06
Survivors from the Tuam mother and baby home have called on the Government to begin collecting DNA samples immediately. The Tuam Home Survivors’ Net(...)

Newly married man who orally raped schoolgirl (13) is jailed
- Circuit Court
- January 25, 2019, 16:24
A 39-year-old Galway man has been given an eight-and-a-half year prison term with the final 18 months suspended for the oral rape, sexual exploitation(...)

Survey begins at burial site of former mother-and-baby home in Roscrea
- Social Affairs
- January 23, 2019, 19:33
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission has begun a geophysical survey at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tipperary. The survey is being ca(...)

Zappone apologises for latest mother and baby homes delay
- Social Affairs
- January 23, 2019
Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has apologised to survivors of mother and baby homes after another delay in the work of a commission of invest(...)

Deadline extension for mother-and-baby commission ‘necessary’, says Zappone
- Social Affairs
- January 22, 2019, 15:48
Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has said that the Government could have refused a request from the commission investigating mother-and-baby ho(...)

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is to seek an extension of one year before publishing its final report, which was due next mont(...)

Angling Notes: Welsh move to protect salmon and sea trout stocks
- Other Sports
- December 17, 2018, 16:30
In a dramatic move brought about by the perilous state of all salmon and many sea trout stocks, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has implemented a suite (...)