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Cork TDs in call for better pay for student nurses and midwives

Despite local authorities having powers ‘no mother and baby home was ever prosecuted’

A Commission of Investigation was set up in the wake of her claims that up to 800 babies were interred in an unmarked mass grave at a former home in Tuam. Sister Eileen O'Connor, the Area Leader of the Sisters of Bon Secours Ireland released a statement this morning. The statement said: "The Commission’s report presents a history of our country in which many women and children were rejected, silenced and excluded; in which they were subjected to hardship; and in which their inherent human dignity was disrespected, in life and in death. "Our Sisters of Bon Secours were part of this sorrowful...

COVID-19 hospitalisation figures triple at UHG 7 January 2021 print Galway Bay fm newsroom – The rate of hospitalisation at UHG due to COVID-19 has more than tripled over the last nine days. There were 19 confirmed cases at UHG nine days ago, with the figure rising to 73 today. There are now close to 200 confirmed cases of the virus receiving care across the Saolta Hospital Group which stretches from Galway to Letterkenny. Latest figures show there are six confirmed cases of Covid-19 at Portiuncula Hospital,, with one patient receiving care in the ICU. CEO of Saolta Hospital Group Tony Cana...