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Offaly group wants Mother & Baby home burial grounds taken over by State Reporter: );  ); A Tullamore based organisation has led the call at an Oireachtas Committee hearing for all burial grounds at Mother and Baby Homes to be taken over by the State. Aitheantas, an adoptee rights organisation, were giving evidence at the hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration.  The Committee was told at a discussion on the Certain Institutional Burials (A...

By Michelle Devane, PA More women will die without knowing whether their child is “rotting in the ground or in a septic tank” unless legislation is passed to allow the excavation of unmarked graves in all Irish institutions, a survivor of one mother and baby home has said. Alice Coughlan, a survivor of the Bessborough institution, described the Government’s Burials Bill as “divisive” and said she does not support it wholeheartedly, but that it needs to be passed so there can be “no ...

  There has been a call for all burial grounds at Mother and Baby Homes to be taken over by the state. A hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration was told on Tuesday that “the state should take ownership of all burial grounds, both those identified and those yet to be identified, by means of compulsory purchase order,” said Maree Ryan-O’Brien of Aitheantas (Adoptee Identity Rights). More generally she said “as a recognised ...

Taoiseach says new tracing legislation will be advanced The Taoiseach says new tracing legislation for those affected by illegal adoption will be advanced as a priority. His comments come after an RTÉ Investigates revealed thousands of Irish babies were illegally adopted over several decades, with many unaware they had been adopted or that it was illegal. Micheal Martin told his parliamentary party last night the issue is shocking, and goverment will work to ensure those affected a...

Clare FM 14th January 2021 The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Home reports was published on Tuesday and examined the conditions experienced by mothers and children who lived in the 18 institutions. Aitheantas, the adoptee identity rights organisation and the organisation behind the #RepealTheSeal campaign, view the final report of the Commission as the beginning of a process, not the end. They are calling for a full investigation into adoption practices, includin...

Adoptee rights group says commission report will not sufficiently tell stories of Mother and Baby Homes survivors Published: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 12:10 Well as anticipation builds ahead of the Commission of Investigation report into Mother and Baby Homes, an adoptees identity rights group says it will not sufficiently tell survivors’ stories. Aitheantas founder Maree Ryan O’Brien argues that the report remit was ‘limited’ to give an overview of the ‘main Mother and Baby Hom...