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The launch of the Philomena Project - Dublin
'Philomena's Law' tabled in British parliament to help Irish survivors of mother and baby homes
Many survivors living in Britain have been deterred from making an application to the compensation scheme operated by the Irish Government

Wed, 12 Mar, 2025

Survivors want proper memorial to people buried in Cork 'mass grave' 
Survivors want proper memorial to people buried in Cork 'mass grave' 
Dozens who died in psychiatric hospitals, industrial schools, and mother and baby homes are buried in unmarked graves in fenced-off plot in Curraghkippane cemetery

Mon, 10 Mar, 2025

'What if Michael comes looking for me after I die?': Mother and baby home survivor aims to buy her home for her son
'What if Michael comes looking for me after I die?': Mother and baby home survivor aims to buy her home for her son
94-year-old Christina 'Chrissie' Tully said: 'It’s a council house, but it wont be my home after I die. I’d like to buy it, so he knows I waited for him.'

Mon, 03 Mar, 2025

Probe into mother and baby homes
Gardaí investigate allegations of sexual abuse at Tipperary special school
It is understood abuse involves up to nine children at St Anne’s special school in Roscrea, which is situated on the grounds of the former Sean Ross Abbey

Wed, 26 Feb, 2025

Obituary: John Furlong, an ‘Angel of Bessborough’, helped women flee mother and baby home
Obituary: John Furlong, an ‘Angel of Bessborough’, helped women flee mother and baby home
Speaking to the Irish Examiner in 2023, Mr Furlong said of the mother and baby homes: 'When it all came out a few years ago, I remember thinking we knew that was going on. Everyone knew'

Fri, 21 Feb, 2025

One of Cork's 'Angels of Bessborough' who helped women flee mother and baby home dies
One of Cork's 'Angels of Bessborough' who helped women flee mother and baby home dies
The role of John Furlong, who died aged 94, was to throw local gardaí off the scent when a woman was being rescued from Bessborough

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025

Vigil for Rosie McKinney heard 'she got justice in the end' from sharing her incredible story
Vigil for Rosie McKinney heard 'she got justice in the end' from sharing her incredible story
The vigil comes as the go-ahead was given for the former Magdalene Laundry on xx Street to be renovated into a national remembrance centre for survivors

Wed, 12 Feb, 2025

Cork actress in Small Things Like These movie fully behind 'national site of conscience'
Cork actress in Small Things Like These movie fully behind 'national site of conscience'
Patricia Twomey from Blarney Street played Sr Frances in the movie, and praised campaigners for helping make the museum a reality

Wed, 12 Feb, 2025

Probe into mother and baby homes
'We want no stone left unturned', say group campaigning for Sean Ross Abbey dig 
The We Are Still Here group to continue campaign for archaeological dig after excavation at the site was ruled out

Tue, 04 Feb, 2025

Tender issued for experts to help recover remains of babies at Tuam mother and baby home
Tender issued for experts to help recover remains of babies at Tuam mother and baby home
Director of Authorised Intervention at Tuam, Daniel MacSweeney, said there will be 16 people on the site from forensic roles to construction

Fri, 31 Jan, 2025

Gareth O'Callaghan: I’m so glad I took a chance to get away from this repressed country
S Gareth O'Callaghan: I’m so glad I took a chance to get away from this repressed country
Many of us made the decision to leave Ireland because we didn’t like being told how to live, what to believe, and what we could or couldn’t do or be

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025

Apology for Magdalene Laundry women
OPW gets permission to convert State's last Magdalene laundry into 'national site of conscience'
The former Our Lady of Charity and Refuge Convent and Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott St is to be turned into the National Centre for Research and Remembrance

Tue, 21 Jan, 2025

Mother and baby home campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on nuns passes away
Mother and baby home campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on nuns passes away
Galway native Rosie McKinney, who has passed away aged 86, was one of the youngest women to enter the Tuam mother and baby home when she was just 15 years old

Fri, 03 Jan, 2025

'The nuns and gardaí came to bring me back, but I told them I’d set my dogs on them'
'The nuns and gardaí came to bring me back, but I told them I’d set my dogs on them'
Recalling the time she escaped from Tuam mother and baby home, Rose McKinney says: "The nuns and gardaí came to bring me back, but I told them I’d set my dogs on them and they left me alone."

Sat, 28 Dec, 2024

'The priest called me a tramp, looked up my skirt to check if I had knickers on, then banished me'
'The priest called me a tramp, looked up my skirt to check if I had knickers on, then banished me'
Helen Culpan from Co Carlow is one of 34,000 survivors who are entitled to a redress payment for the time they spent in one of the country's many mother and baby homes

Wed, 25 Dec, 2024

Study to look at long-term impact of Mother and Baby institutions
Study to look at long-term impact of Mother and Baby institutions
Researchers at the Centre for Social Issues Research at UL will collaborate with the HSE’s National Counselling Service

Tue, 17 Dec, 2024

'We are so angry and hurt, we will not stop until our mother's memory is honoured'
'We are so angry and hurt, we will not stop until our mother's memory is honoured'
The Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme was meant to put survivors front and centre of everything. My family have found it to be heartless and overly bureaucratic, writes Susan O'Shea

Tue, 17 Dec, 2024

'I cant imagine the kind of courage it takes to be you': Oprah speaks to survivor of Magdalene laundry
'I cant imagine the kind of courage it takes to be you': Oprah speaks to survivor of Magdalene laundry
Maureen Sullivan, now 71 years old, was locked up in the New Ross laundry in Co Wexford at age 12, after reporting to a nun that her stepfather was sexually assaulting her

Thu, 05 Dec, 2024

General Election Ireland 2024
O'Gorman claims inaction of housing minister led to reliance on hotels for asylum seekers
Green Party leader hopes party will return to Government to ensure climate targets are met

Thu, 28 Nov, 2024

Work begins to excavate burial site of babies at Tuam mother and baby home
Work begins to excavate burial site of babies at Tuam mother and baby home
Director of Authorised Intervention Tuam, Daniel MacSweeney, said 'the preparation work is ahead of the actual excavation next year'

Wed, 27 Nov, 2024

Bessboro and immigration raised as Roderic O'Gorman leads Green canvass in Cork  
Bessboro and immigration raised as Roderic O'Gorman leads Green canvass in Cork  
Election 2024: The Greens were enjoying a light moment with a busker on Oliver Plunkett St — but the tune suddenly changed as the party leader was challenged by a voter

Fri, 15 Nov, 2024

Small Things Like These
Sarah Harte: The small things that went ignored were our biggest issues in the past
As 'Leathered' and 'Small Things like These' demonstrate, so much of what was visited on Ireland's children in the past has repercussions in the present, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 06 Nov, 2024

Mother and baby home survivor 'disappointed' with money she was offered through redress scheme
Mother and baby home survivor 'disappointed' with money she was offered through redress scheme
Helen Culpan, 90, who spent time in a home when she became pregnant after being raped, said the offer of €17,500 was 'not great' but she was too old to wait any longer

Tue, 29 Oct, 2024

Mother & baby home survivors: 'We feel like saying go to hell — stick your bloody redress' 
Mother & baby home survivors: 'We feel like saying go to hell — stick your bloody redress' 
The mother and baby homes redress scheme was meant to compensate survivors, but has only succeeded in adding to the distress of many families

Tue, 22 Oct, 2024

FILE PHOTO Minister for Children Roderick O'Gorman is under pressure, after the Dail last night voted to pass a bill which has r
Clodagh Finn: Protect and release our archived personal histories
New legislation makes it a criminal offence to destroy, alter or remove records of survivors of institutional abuse. It also focuses on the importance of such documents — and the need to preserve them

Sat, 19 Oct, 2024

Survivors welcome 'overdue' legislation aimed at preserving institutional records
Survivors welcome 'overdue' legislation aimed at preserving institutional records
Survivors have expressed serious concerns about access to personal records and information related to their experience in institutions.

Wed, 16 Oct, 2024

Sarah Harte: The Catholic Church can still act as a lifeboat to the disenchanted
Sarah Harte: The Catholic Church can still act as a lifeboat to the disenchanted
The international image of the Roman Catholic Church remains one of a powerful, authoritarian, conservative, patriarchal, wealthy, and corrupt organisation that has presided over systematic sexual abuse, covered it up and sought to avoid paying for redress.

Wed, 02 Oct, 2024

Philomena Lee among mother and baby home survivors to 'experience difficulty' accessing redress
Philomena Lee among mother and baby home survivors to 'experience difficulty' accessing redress
In the report, special advocate Patricia Carey said she engaged with 500 survivors  and 'considerable anger has been expressed in relation to the Mother and Baby Institutions Payments Scheme'

Fri, 27 Sep, 2024

'It’s an awful thing to have to ask and wait for compensation for something that was done to you'
'It’s an awful thing to have to ask and wait for compensation for something that was done to you'
90-year-old woman who was raped by a local farmer as a teenager and had her child adopted by the nuns  is still waiting on her redress payment 

Sun, 22 Sep, 2024

Millfield Manor 6 House Fire
Mick Clifford: €14bn windfall should be used to right wrongs of the past
Why not use the money to pay debts to those who have come before, and make provision for those who will come later?

Sun, 22 Sep, 2024

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough
Irish Examiner view: The Disappeared — What lies beneath must be brought into the light
Work is accelerating to create the first global open-source mass-graves map

Sat, 21 Sep, 2024

Irish Examiner view: The Church is damaged by the sins of the past
Irish Examiner view: The Church is damaged by the sins of the past
Proposed pastoral centre at bishop's palace dubious

Fri, 20 Sep, 2024

An Bord Pleanála refuses planning for €40m apartment scheme on Bessborough site
An Bord Pleanála refuses planning for €40m apartment scheme on Bessborough site
The long-awaited ruling by the planning appeals board upholds a decision by Cork City Council in January 2023 to refuse planning to developers MWB Two for the scheme

Wed, 18 Sep, 2024

North South Ministerial Council
Simon Harris: Every victim of Troubles deserves 'answers and truth'
North-South Ministerial Council meeting told the Government will 'not be found wanting' in helping families to find resolution

Fri, 13 Sep, 2024

Close up of boy praying
S Paul Hosford: Inquiry into abuse in religious-run schools leaves bike shed in the ha’penny place
A redress scheme for sexual abuse at religious-run schools could run to hundreds of millions, if not billions

Sat, 07 Sep, 2024

Law must respond properly to sexual abuse of children in Catholic schools
Law must respond properly to sexual abuse of children in Catholic schools
If it can be shown to the High Court that the assets of the Church are suspected to be the product of criminal activity, it may guarantee sufficient funds become available for redress

Sat, 07 Sep, 2024

TV review: Stolen is the heartbreaking story of the Mother & Baby Homes' victims
TV review: Stolen is the heartbreaking story of the Mother & Baby Homes' victims
"These human stories show how the vicious misogyny of the Irish State and Catholic Church ruined so many lives."

Mon, 26 Aug, 2024

Irish constitution referenda
Letters to the Editor: Calls for Westbank redress being ignored
'Westbank Orphanage residents not also in the Bethany Home (1922-72), of whom I am one, are not part of the group of 459 survivors who received mother and baby home compensation payments'

Thu, 15 Aug, 2024

Nearly €260k spent on Tuam babies site preparatory work 
Nearly €260k spent on Tuam babies site preparatory work 
Nearly 800 children that died between 1925 and 1961 were buried in a septic tank on the grounds of the former Bons Secours-run institution 

Sat, 20 Jul, 2024

Families of Tuam babies welcome plan for exhumation at mother and baby home
Families of Tuam babies welcome plan for exhumation at mother and baby home
However UCC Professor Thomas Garavan, whose aunt died in the Tuam home in 1936, said he is 'cynical' about the intervention

Mon, 01 Jul, 2024

More Bones have been found at the Tuam mother and Baby site
Exhumation of babies at Tuam mother and baby home to begin in February 2025
It will be the first ever mass grave excavation to take place in Ireland and could pave the way for other similar exhumations

Fri, 28 Jun, 2024

Paisley and Adams Strike Peace Deal - Sir Edward Carson Statue - Stormont
Former resident of mother and baby institution threatens legal action
In 2021 Stormont was urged to establish a public inquiry to investigate mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland and deliver financial redress

Thu, 27 Jun, 2024

FILE PHOTO An Bord Pleanala has refused planning permission for a 179-unit apartment development on the site of the Bessborough
Bessborough survivors want 'full scan' of the grounds in search for babies' remains
It is understood hundreds of Bessborough's babies may have been buried in Carr’s Hill, but no burial records have been located for the area

Tue, 11 Jun, 2024

More Bones have been found at the Tuam mother and Baby site
Tuam mother and baby home advisory board to visit burial site next week
The meeting next week will be the fourth official gathering of the advisory board, which first met in January in Dublin, following its appointment by the Department of Children

Thu, 06 Jun, 2024

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