# bessborough
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2023
mother-and-baby homes
Planning application denied for apartments on former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home site
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22 Jan 2023
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Planning permission sought for apartment buildings on site of former Mother and Baby Home
16 Nov 2022
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redacted lives
'Pregnant from Ireland' - A term many people didn't know until recently, even the women themselves
13 Nov 2022
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bessborough
'You're a Quinn, you're one of us': Woman adopted to US in 1960 finally meets her Irish family
31 Oct 2022
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project infant
'These were babies, not numbers': New website documents deaths in mother and baby homes
11 Sep 2022
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mother and baby homes
'This isn't justice': Relatives criticise fact Bessborough site won't be excavated like Tuam
2 Sep 2022
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Council unable to find burial place of babies despite checking records of 13 graveyards
28 Jun 2022
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terri harrison
'The Irish Handmaid's Tale': Mother and Baby Home survivor says reality was worse than fiction
19 Jun 2021
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Commission
'I am fuming, it's so disrespectful': Survivors react to commissioners' refusal to appear before Oireachtas
12 Jun 2021
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Mary Daly
'Yet another blow to survivors': Women get few answers as Commissioner defends report
2 Jun 2021
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Cork
'Significant victory' for campaigners as planning permission for Bessborough apartments is refused
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26 May 2021
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long lost sisters
Geraldine was born in St Patrick's, her sister Pauline was born in Bessborough - 50 years later they found each other
2 May 2021
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burials bill
Bessborough survivor says more women 'will die not knowing if their child is rotting in a septic tank'
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27 Apr 2021
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Cork
'It's a children's burial ground': Expert claims map of Bessborough site is correct
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22 Apr 2021
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Cork
Survivors call plan to build apartments at Bessborough site 'an abhorrent act of desecration'
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21 Apr 2021
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burials bill
'Is she dead or alive?': Call for inquests into deaths at mother and baby homes
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14 Apr 2021
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mother and baby home
Part of controversial plans for apartments at Bessborough refused planning permission
2 Feb 2021
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burials
Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs
30 Jan 2021
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bessborough
Mother and baby home survivor sues State and order of nuns over alleged treatment at Bessborough
22 Jan 2021
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final report
Premature births and malnutrition: how infant mortality in one home rose to 900% of national rates
12 Jan 2021
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mother and baby home
Minister expresses serious concerns about planning permission for apartments at Bessborough site
12 Jan 2021
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final report
5-year investigation finds at least 9,000 children died in Ireland's mother and baby homes
12 Jan 2021
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Mary Harney
'Accept responsibility and we might accept your apology': Survivors brace themselves for mother and baby home report
12 Jan 2021
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bessborough
How a 'surprising' lack of burial records impacted the work of the mother and baby home commission
11 Jan 2021
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Roderic O'Gorman
Final report of Commission into Mother and Baby Homes to be published in January
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3 Dec 2020
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national archive
'The country is sick of things being brushed under the carpet': What could a national archive on abuse look like?
5 Nov 2020
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Republic of Shame: 'One woman came in wearing two corsets to hide her pregnancy'
14 Sep 2019
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bessborough
Diarmuid Martin: 'It's hard to believe that evidence has simply vanished and that no one can remember'
18 Apr 2019
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mother-and-baby homes
Bessborough nun claims she doesn't remember any child deaths - there were 31 during her time there
17 Apr 2019
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left to die
'Straight away you could feel the horror of it': Nuns 'changed baby's name so he'd be easier to sell'
7 Mar 2017
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'I gave birth to my child on a metal table at 18, alone in a room in a convent'
7 Mar 2017
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bessborough
Handover of 25,000 mother-and-baby files indicates "scale and breadth" of investigation
1 Jul 2014
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