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At Tuam the fifth interim report found that scientific analysis on underground chambers 'suggests that at least some of the chambers in which human remains were found were at some stage used to receive sewage'.
Inquiry report into mother and baby homes may be delayed

Publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation’s final report could be delayed due to its exceptional length The document is on(...)

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation chairperson Judge Yvonne Murphy. Photograph: Eric Luke
Mother and baby homes commission seeks extension to finish report

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(...)

Patrick Anderson McQuaid, Derek Leinster and Noleen Belton, members of the Bethany Survivors Group, at the burial site of children from the Bethany Home in Harold’s Cross, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke
Mother and baby homes inquiry seeks to hear from residents

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation would like to hear from anyone who was resident in, or who worked, in any of the 14 homes it is(...)

Judge Yvonne Murphy, who has been appointed chairperson of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. The commission’s work is officially underway following the formal appointment of three commissioners. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Mother and baby homes commission to begin work

The work of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is now officially underway following the formal appointment of the three indivi(...)

The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby homes will look at the entry and exit arrangements for single women into and out of the homes and for the children on leaving the institutions.
Mother and baby homes commission can compel drug companies

A commission of investigation into mother and baby homes will have the power to compel drug companies which conducted vaccine trials on children resid(...)

A first edition of Whoroscope by Samuel Beckett, one of 100 copies, signed and inscribed by Beckett to his college friend Billy Cunningham was sold, with a photograph showing Cunningham beside Beckett on a golf links, for €4,200.
First edition of ‘Whoroscope’ by Samuel Beckett, sells for €4,200

Bidders spent more than €250,000 on rare books, manuscripts and maps at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers’ sale in the Clyde Court Hotel, Dublin on Tuesday. Mo(...)