Independent TD Catherine Connolly says compensation based on business and cost and ‘absolutely nothing to do with justice or what is right’
Mother & baby homes
I have taken what I learned in Lebanon and the Caucasus to Tuam; there are many similarities with the post-conflict missing-persons work
Pharma giant GSK, whose predecessor companies profited from the trials, has so far resisted calls to contribute
Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills: Secret pregnancies and missing women are part of the family story of a great many people
TV review: Dearbhail McDonald suggests it is time to stop seeing nuns – and, by implication, ourselves and our history – in black and white
To date only one of seven Catholic orders involved in negotiations – the Bon Secours sisters – has stated publicly that it will contribute to the redress scheme for survivors
Minister has sought financial contributions from seven Catholic bodies that ran homes or were linked to them
Roderic O’Gorman tells Dáil negotiations on financial contributions from religious bodies which ran institutions ‘ongoing’ and ‘confidential’
Film review: The emotional centre of the film remains with the survivors of mother and baby homes
Hennigan calls for public recognition – a reckoning – of the horrors enacted within psychiatric institutions
Daniel Mac Sweeney, leading the exhumation, says process will operate at ‘limits of forensic science’
Government-appointed director Daniel McSweeney will oversee ‘one of the most complicated forensic excavations in the world’
How much money is too much money to spend on shining a light in places that those with money and power would rather one was not shone?
Daniel Mac Sweeney appointed to oversee excavation of site to allow for remains to be exhumed and reinterred respectfully
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