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Govt. recognises trauma of those born in homes - Martin

The Taoiseach has told CNN that the Government recognises the trauma of those born in mother-and-baby Homes and is seeking to make amends.

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 22 Jan

Kilkenny council apologises over mother-and-baby home

Kilkenny County Council has apologised to survivors and their relatives of the Kilkenny County Home, one of the institutions criticised last week by the Commission ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 20 Jan

Councils to consider apology over mother-and-baby homes

A number of local authorities are considering making an apology for their involvement in mother-and-baby homes.

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 21 Jan

Group 'shocked' at racism conclusions in homes report

A group representing mixed-race Irish children who were born in mother-and-baby homes has expressed shock at the findings in the Commission of Investigation's report that ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 19 Jan

Outline of tracing legislation could be ready by March

Minister for Children Roderic O'Gorman has said that an outline of tracing legislation allowing former residents of mother-and-baby homes to access their personal information will ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 19 Jan

Medical research on children at mother-and-baby homes

Attitudes towards unmarried mothers are illustrated throughout the pages of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation report, though survivors did not need to ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 17 Jan

Orders should not be scapegoats - Archbishop Martin

Catholic Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin has said he would be disappointed if the religious congregations were scapegoated for their role in mother-and-baby ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 17 Jan

Mother appeals for details on daughter's grave

In June 1972 Limerick woman Ann O'Gorman gave birth to a baby girl in the Bessborough mother-and-baby home in Cork. This was her first child ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 17 Jan

Survivors criticise Commission's vaccine trial findings

A survivor of Bessborough mother-and-baby home in Cork has criticised a finding of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes that there is ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 17 Jan

Injustices of the past laid bare in report on homes

It has been a difficult week for survivors of mother-and-baby homes as the injustices of the past were laid bare by a report published on ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 16 Jan

Homes report shows church was 'complicit' - McAleese

Former president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, said the report by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes showed the Catholic Church was "most ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 16 Jan

Helplines for survivors of mother-and-baby homes

List of national and international helplines for survivors of mother-and-baby homes.

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 12 Jan

Adoption group welcomes advice not to hold referendum

The Adoption Rights Alliance has welcomed confirmation that a referendum will not be required to give survivors of Mother and Baby Homes access to their ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 15 Jan

Church and State 'bear heavy responsibility' over homes

President Michael D Higgins has responded to the publication of the report on mother-and-baby homes saying that the State must bear primary responsibility for failing ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 15 Jan

Referendum on birth cert right would 'complicate issue'

A senior law lecturer at the University of Limerick has said having a referendum on the legal right to access birth certificates, as recommended by ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 14 Jan

Report drew 'incorrect conclusions' from testimonies

Independent TD for Galway West, Catherine Connolly has said the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes had drawn incorrect conclusions from the testimonies ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 14 Jan

Report expected on mother-and-baby homes in NI

A report by an independent research group later this month is expected to recommend an inquiry into the running of mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland.

Ulster • 14 Jan

State apology: 'The shame was not theirs; it was ours'

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has addressed the Dáil on the Commission of Investigation's report into mother-and-baby homes, and has given a State apology to survivors and ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan

Trust in short supply as Govt issues apology

Taoiseach Micheál Martin might have expected a warmer reaction to his declaration in the Dáil that the State had failed both the women and children ...

Politics • 13 Jan

Survivor calls for urgency on adoption information

A man whose adoption was arranged through Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork almost 70 years ago has welcomed the State apology made by ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan

'It wasn't my choice to leave Ireland'

Colleen Anderson was sent to the United States when she was just a toddler in the late 1960s. She was born in the Sean Ross ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan

Survivor says report raises more questions on homes

A woman who was born in the Sean Ross mother-and-baby home has said the publication of the Commission of Investigation report is just the start ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan

Archbishop says Commission report a 'cause for shame'

The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam has apologised unreservedly for the way in which the Church "labelled, judged, stigmatised and ostracised" women and children in the ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan

'The State failed you', survivors of homes told

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has apologised to the women and children of mother-and-baby homes for a "profound generational wrong".

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan

Govt outlines response to mother-and-baby homes report

The Government has said that the four pillars of recognition, remembrance, records, and restorative recognition are at the centre of its response to the findings ...

Mother-And-Baby Homes • 13 Jan