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March 3, 2017

Irish commission finds human remains at former church-run home

The entrance to the site of a burial site at the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland is seen in this 2014 file photo. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is probing how unmarried mothers and their babies were treated between 1922 and 1998 at 18 state-regulated institutions, many of them run by religious orders.

DUBLIN – The commission set up to investigate the treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies in Irish care homes during the 20th century says it has found "significant" human remains at the site of a former home in western Ireland.

Published in International
June 28, 2014

Irish government finalizes terms of inquiry into mother-baby homes

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

DUBLIN - The Irish government is finalizing the parameters of a judicial inquiry into Church-run state-funded mother and baby homes.

Published in International