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

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 ...

The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense ...

Excavations begin today of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...

A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains ...

Research in 2014 by local historian, Catherine Corless, found that there were no burial records for the infants and toddlers. As the children of mothers who were generally unmarried, they were deemed ...

Media from Ireland and abroad were at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway, as officials prepare to begin excavations.

Nearly 800 infants may have died in maternity home run on behalf of government by Sisters of Bon Secours from 1925 to 1961 ...

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

Dr Niamh McCullagh, senior forensic consultant, points to a map of the excavation site in Tuam, Ireland, Monday July 7, 2025 ...