# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 16 April, 2021
# AMRI
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# AMRI
The Association of Mixed Race Irish has asked the United Nations to visit Ireland and investigate institutional racism here.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 14 April, 2021
# Burials Bill
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Inquests must be carried out into all deaths at mother and baby homes, Oireachtas told One Tuam survivor wants to know if his sister is buried at the site, or still alive Ireland 'must meet its domestic and international human rights obligations'
# Burials Bill
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Legislation being debated today would allow excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby homes Catherine Corless says as many sites as possible must be included "The babies should have been taken out of there in 2017 when they were found," she says of Tuam
# mother-and-baby-homes - Monday 12 April, 2021
# High Court
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# High Court
Lee’s life story was made into an award-winning film, Philomena, in 2013.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 6 April, 2021
# Adoption
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# Adoption
Adopted people have called for long-awaited tracing and information legislation to be published as a matter of urgency.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 4 April, 2021
# Redress
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# Redress
Some survivors have also called on the government to take legal action against the religious orders who ran the institutions if they refuse to pay financial compensation.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Email Addresses
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# Email Addresses
Those affected by the breach are “deeply upset and distressed” by the sharing of their email addresses without their consent.
# Bethany Home
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# Bethany Home
Leinster, who was born in Bethany Home in Dublin in 1941, has campaigned for redress for over 20 years.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# Mother And Baby
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# Mother And Baby
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties has written a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 20 March, 2021
# Commission
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# Commission
A number of survivors of mother and baby homes have raised concerns about how their requests for personal files are being dealt with by the Department of Children.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 17 March, 2021
# OAK Consulting
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# OAK Consulting
The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 10 March, 2021
# Birth Certs
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# Birth Certs
The minister has also launched a consultation process for a redress scheme for survivors of Mother And Baby Homes.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 9 March, 2021
# Birth Registration
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# Birth Registration
Minister Roderic O’Gorman says “deep ethical issues” arise in relation to illegal birth registrations, and an inquiry may still happen.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 27 February, 2021
# Investigation
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# Investigation
At the party’s national conference, Social Democrats voted to call on the government to prioritise addressing survivors’ concerns.
# Mother-and-baby Homes
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# Mother-and-baby Homes
One survivor says her experience was “misrepresented” to a “shocking extent” in the final report by the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 26 February, 2021
# Deleted Tapes
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# Deleted Tapes
The minister noted that members of the commission “can’t be compelled to come before the Oireachtas”.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 25 February, 2021
# Department Of Children
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# Department Of Children
Around 100,000 records are expected to be moved to the Department of Children next week.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 24 February, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
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# Mother-and-baby Homes
A Social Democrats’ motion to extend the commission’s term by one year had broad support but is non-binding and is not being acted on by government.
# Deleted Audio
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# Deleted Audio
The commission is due to dissolve on 28 February but a number of TDs want its term extended amid concerns over deleted audio recordings.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 23 February, 2021
# Mother And Baby
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# Mother And Baby
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has agreed to deposit the recordings with the Department.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Monday 22 February, 2021
# Deleted Audio
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# Deleted Audio
Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore said the issue “goes beyond party politics”.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 19 February, 2021
# Adoption
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# Adoption
Beth Wallace wants to commemorate her brother who died, aged five weeks, 49 years ago today.
# Testimony
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# Testimony
“We all know how difficult it is to permanently destroy electronic information,” the minister said today.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 18 February, 2021
# Mother And Baby
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# Mother And Baby
The Tánasite said he could not make a commitment today that it would be extended beyond 28 February.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 17 February, 2021
# Recordings
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# Recordings
Mary Teresa Collins said she feels “very hurt and let down” by authorities in Ireland.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Commission
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# Commission
The minister said the Commission informed him of the latest development today.
# Commission
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# Commission
A number of witnesses have contacted the gardaí and Data Protection Commissioner to date.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 9 February, 2021
# Institutional Abuse
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# Institutional Abuse
People who spent time in Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes say they have been “re-traumatised” by recent developments.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 6 February, 2021
# Northern Ireland
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# Northern Ireland
Following the recent report on institutions there, Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister says an all-island approach is needed on this issue, to address the wrongs of the past.
# Mother-and-baby Homes
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# Mother-and-baby Homes
“So many lives could be made better, saved, elongated, if doctors knew what they were testing for.”
# mother-and-baby-homes - Friday 5 February, 2021
# Final Report
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# Final Report
Committee members are “very disappointed” by the latest development.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Thursday 4 February, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
From TheJournal.ie
# Mother-and-baby Homes
There have been calls for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to not be dissolved at the end of the month.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 31 January, 2021
# Commission
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# Commission
Survivors say they were not informed their testimony would be destroyed.
# Children's Rights
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# Children's Rights
Jamie Canavan is researching the stories of children who were forced into ‘boarding out’, a term given to fostering in the early to mid last century.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 30 January, 2021
# Burials
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# Burials
A Bessborough survivor has said the revelations are “heartbreaking and shocking”.
# Industrial School
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# Industrial School
Joe McAveety was born in a mother and baby home and grew up in industrial schools which were rife with physical and sexual abuse.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Wednesday 27 January, 2021
# Final Report
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# Final Report
Survivors will be asked to attend a separate hearing so they can raise any questions or concerns they have.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Tuesday 26 January, 2021
# The North
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# The North
Ministers in Northern Ireland are to establish a ‘victim-centred’ independent investigation.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Sunday 24 January, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
From TheJournal.ie
# Mother-and-baby Homes
NUIG historian Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley says the recent Commission report into mother and baby homes needed to have a deeper look at Protestant institutions and the neglect of children like Derek.
# mother-and-baby-homes - Saturday 23 January, 2021
# Child Welfare
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# Child Welfare
Academic Máiréad Enright takes a forensic look at the Mother & Baby Home report and shares her concerns with its approach to redress.
