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In 1985, a housewife sat down to write a letter to Joanne Hayes. “I want you to know that a lot of women everywhere are outraged at the way you are being treated,” wrote the woman, who was also a mother . Hayes, just 25 , was being publicly and ruthlessly excoriated at a tribunal ostensibly set up to investigate the garda response to the Kerry Babies case, but had long since become an opportunity to punish a young single mother for all her moral fallibility. The prestige of official ...

In an extract from his 2020 book, Niall O'Dowd looks at the shocking history surrounding the murder of "Baby John" in Kerry. Incredible as it seems a man and a woman have been arrested for the death of a newborn baby, known as the Kerry Babies which occurred in April 1984 and created a worldwide sensation.

Sedation, vilification, humiliation: Joanne Hayes’s public suffering was the anvil on which a modern Ireland was hammered out

In the final part of our week long series to mark International Womens Day. In total more than 100 Cork women submitted their thoughts on the theme ...

To mark Nollaig na mBan 2023, we take a look at some of the fierce queer women who have made a mark on lives in Ireland throughout history.

Therese Caherty and Pauline Conroy, alongside photographer Derek Speirs, are the editors of a new book about Ireland’s road to repeal – here they take us through their work on it.

Síle Darragh’s ground breaking account of her imprisonment in Armagh Gaol has been republished with a new foreword by Rita O’Hare who writes of Síle’s moving and powerfully evocative story. You can...

Using a combination of interviews and archive footage, the documentary followed the story of the cityside of the Foyle and its football club from the early years of the Troubles

Charles O’Carroll-Kelly goes on Drivetime to talk about Castlerock College going co-ed

It wasn't until late on Thursday morning that I realised Prince Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, were back in Ireland for a three-day visit.