Yvonne Murphy
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Mixed Race Irish: ‘We were the dust to be swept away’
- Social Affairs
- July 18, 2015, 01:00
In October 1958, when Rosemary Adaser was admitted, as an 18-month-old, to a mother-and-baby home in Dublin, her admission notes described her as “ill(...)

Brady’s evidence raises questions about 1975 abuse investigation
- Religion & Beliefs
- June 25, 2015, 21:44
Hearing Cardinal Seán Brady’s evidence to the North’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was to be reminded of a damning conclusion in Judge Yvonn(...)

Analysis: Commissions seek to simplify investigations
- Politics
- June 5, 2015, 01:00
Commissions of investigations came into being in 2004 when an Act of the same name passed through the Dáil. Then minister for justice Michael McDowel(...)

Couple consent to Co Dublin home being given back to bank
- Circuit Court
- March 16, 2015, 15:44
A Co Dublin couple have consented to their four-bedroom, semi-detached home being given back to their bank, a court was told Monday.Tony Reynolds, sol(...)

Man jailed over suitcase full of cannabis to hear if conviction quashed
- Crime & Law
- February 24, 2015, 13:19
A man jailed for possessing a suitcase full of cannabis will find out next Tuesday whether his conviction will be quashed.Remigijus Tuma (32), with an(...)

Mother and baby homes commission to begin work
- Social Affairs
- February 19, 2015, 18:50
The work of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is now officially underway following the formal appointment of the three indivi(...)

‘Vital Statistics’ sheds light on inequalities in life expectancy
- Economy
- January 13, 2015, 01:20
While the standard of living today, measured in terms of income per head, is a multiple of what it was a century ago, a much more dramatic improvement(...)

TCD professor Patrick Geoghegan defends admissions experiment
- Education
- October 16, 2014, 17:25
In a major speech to a nervous American nation in 1860, Abraham Lincoln explained that it would be foolish to “follow implicitly in whatever” had b(...)

MEPs to be lobbied on terms of reference for mother-and-baby homes commission
- Religion & Beliefs
- September 8, 2014, 01:03
MEPs will be lobbied tomorrow in Brussels by groups seeking support for a broader remit in terms of reference for the mother-and-baby home commission(...)

Students access TCD courses below CAO entry level
- Education
- August 18, 2014, 06:01
Some 25 students who did not get enough points for three Trinity College Dublin courses are being offered places under a pilot entry scheme.The schem(...)