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Mother and Baby Homes report described as unfair, untruthful and inaccurate
The Dáil has been told that the recently published Mother and Baby Homes report should be repudiated since it is not valid or accurate. The Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar, and the leader of the Labour party, Alan Kelly, criticised the decision of a member of the commission responsible for the report to...
Mother and Baby Homes report criticised by survivors, public figures
Historian of Tuam Catherine Corless has criticised the failure of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes fully to take into account the views and evidence of survivors. Calling for a review of the Commission’s final report, Ms Corless said that people had expected that the...
Former Mother and Baby Home Residents Bring High Court Challenges Against Report of the Commission of Investigation
A number of women including Ms Philomena Lee have brought High Court challenges with a view to quashing elements of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. On the 12th of April Mr Justice Simmons in the High Court granted leave for Ms Lee’s legal team leave...
Women Illegally Adopted Seeks Expansion of Investigation
Ms Theresa Hiney Tingal discovered she was illegally adopted, and her birth certificate falsified at the age of 48. It was through freedom of information requests that Ms Hiney Tingal finally got a copy of her HSE adoption file. As a result of the discovery, she has sought that the current...
High Court Rules Illegal Adoption Cases to be Assessed for Damages Only
As a result of High Court rulings when at least six illegal adoption cases against St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Society go to trial it will be solely for assessment of damages. These orders were made after Anthony Weldon, the liquidator of St Patrick’s Guild failed to appoint lawyers to defend the...
Residents of Mother and Baby Homes Initiate Claims Against State and Religious Orders
Following the publishing of the report from the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes in January numerous lawsuits have been initiated against the State and the religious orders which ran the homes. The Commission examined 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes in...
Investigation into History of Illegal Adoptions in Ireland
The issue of illegal adoptions in Ireland has again come to the fore following the publication of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in January. Previously in 2018, the Government had promised to take action in the cases of 126 babies who were illegally...
Report findings of the condition the victims of the mother and baby homes had endured and State and Church have “heavy responsibility” according to President Michael D. Higgins
The release of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation in Mother and Baby Homes on Tuesday the 12th January 2021 highlighted the poor practices and conditions of living and treatment that the mothers and babies had received in the mother-and-baby homes between the years of 1922 to...
Vaccine Trials conducted on victims of Mother-and-Baby Homes without consent
On Tuesday morning, the Cabinet is set to approve the findings of the mother-and-baby homes in Ireland by the Commission of Investigation. The report focuses on 14 mother-and-baby homes and county homes which found an estimate of 9000 children had died in these institutions between 1922 until the...
Findings of Mother-and-baby Homes in Ireland over the last 75 years to be released
On Tuesday morning, the Cabinet is set to approve the findings of the mother-and-baby homes in Ireland by the Commission of Investigation. The report focuses on 14 mother-and-baby homes and county homes which found an estimate of 9000 children had died in these institutions between 1922 until the...
Redress may be extended to all women whom may have not lived at the Magdalen Laundries
Minister for Justice, Michael Flanagan has instructed survivors of the “adjoining institutions” to the Magdalen Laundries to contact his office directly. The measure has been taken in line to the Ombudsman report last November, where the performance of the Department of Justice...
Residential Care Centre Abuse
Residential Care Centre Abuse – Unannounced HIQA inspections highlight various issues in Care Homes for the intellectually disabled HIQA has reported that a residential centre for 13 adults with intellectual disabilities recorded an average of one incident of physical or verbal...
Mother and Baby Home Commission facing challenges
Mother and Baby Home Commission facing challenges It has been revealed through the Commission of Investigation’s Third Interim Report that while some Catholic Orders of nuns which ran or staffed mother and baby institutions provided extensive documentation, others have said that very little...
Ombudsman’s Report Re Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Scheme
Ombudsman's Report Re Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Scheme “These women have waited long enough for justice,” The Ombudsman's Report entitled "Opportunity Lost", has now come out on the Ombudsman’s investigation into how the Department of Justice administered the Magdalene Laundries...
FORMER SURGEON MICHAEL SHINE SENTENCED TO 20 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR INDECENT ASSAULT OF TEENAGE BOYS
FORMER SURGEON MICHAEL SHINE SENTENCED TO 20 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR INDECENT ASSAULT OF TEENAGE BOYS Michael Shine, a retired surgeon, 85, has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for indecently assaulting two teenage boys who were his patients in the mid-1970s. Michael Shine, 85, of Wellington Road...
Lifting the Veil of Silence over Mother and Baby Homes Ireland
Lifting the Veil of Silence over Mother and Baby Homes In light of the recent discovery of human remains on a site in Tuam, Co. Galway, a Commission has been established to further investigate the circumstances surrounding these harrowing findings. Historical Mother and Baby Homes and Institutions...
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