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'No payment can ever fully atone for the harm done' at Mother & Baby Institutions - minister

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'No payment can ever fully atone for the harm done through the Mother & Baby Institutions' - minister

A fund of €800 million has been approved by Government today for 34,000 survivors and former residents under the Mother & Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. The scheme will provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card to “defined ...

16 Nov 2021 at 16:11

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Preparatory work begins ahead of mass grave excavation at mother and baby home

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam in Co Galway has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes ahead of the full-scale excavation of the site to try to identify the ...

16 Jun 2025 at 13:18

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Son reunited with mother and baby home survivor ‘desperate’ to buy her home

A man who was reunited with his birth mother, a survivor of one of Ireland’s most notorious mother and baby homes, has launched a fundraiser to help her buy her house. Patrick Naughton, 70, from Ealing, west London, was taken from his ...

17 Apr 2025 at 08:00

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Final call for testimony from Northern Ireland mother and baby home survivors

A final call has been made for survivors of former mother and baby home and Magdalene institutions in Northern Ireland to come forward and give testimony. It comes as part of a Truth Recovery Programme to investigate what happened at ...

19 Feb 2025 at 13:54

Northern Ireland

‘Milestone’ mother and baby homes inquiry announcement welcomed

The formal announcement of a consultation for a public inquiry into mother and baby institutions has been welcomed as an “important milestone”. First Minister Michelle O’Neill said she hopes to see the draft Bill for the public ...

26 Jun 2024 at 08:09

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OPINION: Why blame the nuns and not ask where all the fathers were?

The release of the most recent module in Judge Yvonne Murphy's investigation of the Mother and Baby homes evoked the now familiar bout of nun-bashing in the Dáil, in the media and on RTÉ. Human memory is both short and often ...

07 May 2019 at 14:06

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‘State cannot be trusted on mother and baby homes’

A Donegal born man who spent the first few months of his life in care in Inishowen in the 1970s says the State “cannot be trusted” on the mother and baby homes issue. Graham Monaghan, who was adopted by a couple from Sligo ...

19 Nov 2020 at 13:57

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Son of Tuam survivor ‘over the moon’ to secure funds to buy mother’s home

A man who was reunited with his birth mother, a survivor of one of Ireland’s most notorious mother and baby homes, has raised more than 70,000 euro to buy her home. Patrick Naughton, 70, from Ealing, west London, was ...

13 May 2025 at 15:47

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Work to identify buried babies at Tuam home could begin by end of year

Work at the site of the notorious Tuam mother and baby home could begin by the end of the year, as a new Bill to allow the exhumation and identification of bodies at such institutions enters the Irish parliament. ...

22 Feb 2022 at 16:34

Further remains uncovered during Tuam excavation

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Further remains uncovered during Tuam ecavation

Further sets of infant remains have been identified, as an excavation team confirmed a burial ground from the time of the operation of a mother and baby home. The excavation of the site of St Mary’s mother and ...

05 Dec 2025 at 13:16

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Pre-excavation work to begin at former mother and baby home in Tuam

Pre-excavation work on the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam will start on Monday. Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam (ODAIT), said families ...

11 Jun 2025 at 12:34

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'Make your voices heard' - Survivors of mother and baby homes urged to come forward in NI

Survivors of mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses have been urged to speak to police. Detectives are investigating allegations of abuse at the institutions which were formerly run ...

09 Aug 2022 at 18:00

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