TheIn the wake of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland, Taoiseach Micheal Martin apologized, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar highlighted the "hopeful" aspects, but TD Richard Boyd-Barrett slammed both the final report and the government's response.
); We did not live up to our Christianity : Bon Secours apologises for Tuam mother and baby home
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File image of author John Pascal Rodgers at a grotto on the grounds of the unmarked mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway.
Image: Laura Hutton
File image of author John Pascal Rodgers at a grotto on the grounds of the unmarked mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway.
Image: Laura Hutton
THE SISTERS OF Bon Secours has said it “failed to respect the inherent dignity” of the women and children in the Tuam mother and baby home following the publication of a landmark report yesterday.
Mother And Baby Home Survivors Seek Restorative Justice After Taoiseach s Premature Apology
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has delivered an apology to the survivors of mother and baby homes and county homes.
Speaking in the Dáil, he apologised on behalf of the State for what he called the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers and their children .
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation published its final report yesterday, which revealed that about 9,000 children died in the 18 homes under investigation.
Conall Ó Fátharta, lecturer at NUIG and a journalist who has written on these issues for 10 years, Caelainn Hogan, author of
Ireland was a “cold and harsh” environment for the majority of women and children who stayed in mother and baby homes, a Commission of Investigation has found. The shocking report to be published today finds women residing in these institutions suffered serious discrimination. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation found women who gave birth outside of marriage were subjected to particularly harsh treatment. It finds 56,000 women were sent to these institutions after 1922, all the way up to 1998 when the last home was finally closed. Taoiseach Micheál Martin is expected to issue a State apology to the victims and a redress scheme is also being discussed. The report will be published this afternoon but survivors and their families will have online access this morning. The report sets out in stark detail the plight of mothers and children who passed through homes. Cabinet will discuss the 3,000-page report this morning before it is formally published at around 3pm.