Mother and baby home controversy overshadows work of Frank Duff
Legion of Mary founder a tireless worker in aiding single mothers to raise own children
Systematic cruelty of mother and baby homes dates back to 18th century
Foundling Hospital children ate stirabout infested with clock beetles and earwigs
Garda appeals for mother and baby home victims to come forward
Commission’s report ‘not detailed enough’ to open criminal investigations
Report will ‘release’ survivors from shame, says Catherine Corless
Historian hopes commission on mother-and-baby homes will reveal ‘whole truth’
Catherine Corless sceptical about delay in publishing Mother and Baby Home report
Commission set up following her uncovering of 796 child deaths at Tuam Home
No grand conspiracy to protect those responsible for mother and baby homes
Without such confidentiality there would be no Ryan, Murphy, Cloyne or Magdalene reports
Seminar in Dublin church on Tuam children’s home cancelled due to Covid-19
Topics included ‘False allegations of child abuse against the Catholic Church, including homicide’
NUIG challenges finding that it paid for Tuam infant remains
Digital exhibition launched to tell stories of survivors of mother and baby home in Galway
Inquiry report into mother and baby homes may be delayed
Exceptional length and general election flagged as reasons that could stall publication
Adoption files around the country could be seized under new Bill
Adoption Authority has identified 160 potential locations where files are being held
‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report
Interview: On the 10th anniversary of the report’s publication, Ryan looks back
Single mothers and their children paid price for ‘innate deference’ to Church
The State did not adequately oversee mother-and-baby homes says commission member
Mother-and-baby homes report is distressing, says archbishop
‘Hard to believe that evidence has simply vanished and that no one can remember’
Some priests abused so many children they lost track - Diarmuid Martin
Catholic Church has to be made accountable, says Mary McAleese
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