Woman claims she was forced to give up child for adoption while in mother and baby home
‘Very vulnerable individual’, who is now a pensioner, settles case in High Court
Mother and baby homes
Stories about Ireland's mother and baby homes
Dublin and Berlin find themselves at opposite ends of the political spectrum
It’s striking how many friends in Ireland say privately what they don’t dare say in public, on everything from Kneecap to Michael D Higgins to Hamas
Human remains discovered during excavation of Tuam site
Five sets of skeletal remains are believed to predate mother and baby home as operation continues
Traitors host Siobhán McSweeney speaks out for Philomena’s Law at Labour conference
Call for legal change to protect British-resident survivors of Irish mother and baby homes from welfare cuts
Playwright Carys D Coburn on Bán: ‘Can we be real to one another and be family? Often the answer is no’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Coburn’s prowess is in addressing the space between what we say and what we know
Love in a Time of Politics by Katherine Zappone: Blazing a trail in court of public opinion
Was Zappone more effective as an insider than as an activist? The answer is not always clear
Tuam excavation: more than 100 people come forward to give DNA
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
Adult tooth only human remains found to date in early Tuam excavation
Excavation of site of former mother and baby institution began in July and is likely to take at least two years
Commission of inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools must become truly survivor-centred
Rite & Reason: Terms of reference should change and include restorative justice as requested by so many
How a controlling cult and a strangling Catholicism ruined lives in Britain and in Navan
Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army, on the BBC, and Pray for Our Sinners, on RTÉ, document the grip of religions
Man (81) calls for family DNA samples for Tuam remains to extend to cousins
Under the Institutional Burials Act, cousins can not provide DNA for identification purposes at the Tuam Mother and Baby home excavation
Remove statute of limitations to encourage churches and orders to pay sex-abuse redress - expert
It is in the interest of religious organisations to contribute to schemes as way of reducing costs, says Prof Conor O’Mahony of Child Law Clinic
Why are the experiences of people, like me, who were resident in Temple Hill forgotten?
Residents of the old St Patrick’s Infant and Dietetic Hospital are excluded from redress schemes despite its role in adoptions
Tuam is a microcosm for Ireland’s history of discarded bones
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense
Higgins ‘open’ to visiting Tuam mother and baby home site as he welcomes excavation
The excavation will begin on Monday, some 11 years after research by local historian Catherine Corless revealed 796 children died at the institution
In Plain Sight review: A sharp and graceful new way to tell a difficult story and start vital conversations
Theatre: This new work by Noelle Brown and Camille O’Sullivan shifts between modes - guided reflection, documentary theatre, archival reading, song
Tuam families can see ‘light at the end of a very long tunnel’
Children buried at former mother and baby home site ‘got no dignity in life and got no dignity in death’, sister says
Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order
Mother and baby home survivor upset by absence of 1,090 infants from key report
‘No mention’ of babies who died at Sean Ross Abbey or of need to investigate anomalies on land, says campaigner
Mother and Baby Homes: ‘There isn’t a family in Ireland that isn’t affected by it’
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Law Society recognises Irish Times journalism at Justice Media Awards
Record-breaking 495 entries were submitted by entrants in 16 categories overall this year
‘Dublin city centre is turning into an unadulterated kip’: Joe Duffy’s Liveline highlights
The veteran presenter was always adept at tapping into his audience’s concerns. People talked to Joe, after all
Exclusion of some survivors from mother and baby redress scheme ‘causing anger, distress and retraumatisation’
Advocate for abuse survivors criticises ‘arbitrary criteria’ for scheme admission as she publishes first annual report
Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill declines to rule out presidential run
Former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood will ‘take time to think about’ possible candidacy
Greater Traveller representation needed in Irish politics, says UN committee
‘One Traveller woman in the senate is good but not sufficient’, says committee vice-chairperson Marianna Mikko
Other burial sites must be identified, says survivors’ advocate after exhumation preparation begins in Tuam
Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried
Will the Tuam excavation finally bring closure to families?
Irish Times reporter Órla Ryan reflects on the decade since Tuam mother and baby home revelations
How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’
Two very different playgrounds exist in Co Galway town
Catherine Corless: ‘I was told more often than not that I was giving Tuam a bad name’
Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice
Catherine Corless ‘so relieved’ excavation of Tuam mother and baby home will finally begin on Monday
The Bon Secours-run institution has admitted it did not treat the bodies of dead children properly
Work to excavate site of Tuam mother and baby home to begin in June
Almost 800 children could be buried at the site
When Pope Francis met abuse survivors in Ireland: ‘He drew a picture of a toilet. Anything that goes into that is caca’
Pope met eight Irish survivors of clerical abuse when he visited Ireland in August 2018
Churches should ‘do the right thing’ on mother-and-baby home redress, Norma Foley says
Government faces steep legal barriers to compelling orders to contribute to €800m redress scheme, say experts
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