); We can t just say it s too difficult : Could criminal investigations into Ireland s mother and baby homes happen?
There have been calls for investigations following the publication of a long-awaited report this week. By Stephen McDermott Sunday 17 Jan 2021, 12:05 AM Jan 17th 2021, 12:05 AM 24,588 Views 43 Comments The site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home Source: Niall Carson/PA
THE PUBLICATION OF the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation has led to calls for criminal probes into the activities of religious-run institutions for unmarried mothers in Ireland.
The commission’s five-year investigation, published on Wednesday, found that around 9,000 children died in 18 different homes, where girls as young as 12 were admitted over seven decad
The publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation report last week has given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of pent-up emotions which had been contained in a simmering cauldron of abeyance not just for the five years the commission has sat, but also for the decades spanning back to the foundation of the State. As one of our writers says today, how the mothers and their children born in these homes stayed sane in the face of a galactic wound inflicted upon them, and therefore on us all and our psychic inheritance, is a mystery.
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The Final Report of The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is nearly 2,900 pages long. I have read perhaps a quarter of it completely, because I ended up following one particular thread almost by accident.
The Catholic Church (and the Protestant Churches) must take well-deserved blame for the many times, in the words of the apology issued by the Bon Secours Sisters, when they failed to live up to [ their] Christianity.
In or around 1990, the matron of St Columba’s Hospital asked a groundsman to incinerate institutional records. The facility in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, is now a nursing home but it has had a number of previous incarnations.