The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway is under way. The exhumations will ...

Nothing until 2014, when an amateur historian uncovered evidence of a mass grave, potentially in a former sewage tank, ...

When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...

If you've seen the Judy Dench film Philomena, you'll be familiar with the Magdalene laundries - institutions for "fallen women" that operated from the 18th to the late 20th century. They were ...

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

Excavation work has commenced at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. The operation got under way ...

A full forensic excavation on the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, began on Monday morning.

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Government to give powers to local authorities to rescind emergency accommodation in special circumstances ...

The excavation will begin on Monday, some 11 years after research by local historian Catherine Corless revealed 796 children ...

THE excavation on the grounds of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home began on Monday, 100 years after it was first established in ...

The exhumation of the Tuam babies burial site got underway at 10.38am on Monday, the Director of Authorised Intervention in ...