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Mother and baby home survivors willing to chain themselves to diggers to halt apartments

Mother and baby home survivors willing to chain themselves to diggers to halt apartments

Over 250 people attended a vigil at the graveyard folly in Bessborough in Blackrock in Cork city on Sunday.

Planning permission for apartments at Bessborough mother and baby home site 'devastating'

Planning permission for apartments at Bessborough mother and baby home site 'devastating'

Developer Estuary View Enterprises has been granted permission for the large scale residential development at Bessborough in Ballinure, Blackrock in Cork.

Forensic experts to be paid €4.5m as mother and baby home excavation enters second phase

Forensic experts to be paid €4.5m as mother and baby home excavation enters second phase

The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried on the site

Evidence of additional graves of children and infants uncovered in Tuam

Evidence of additional graves of children and infants uncovered in Tuam

Adult tooth and glass baby bottles found at Tuam mother and baby site

Adult tooth and glass baby bottles found at Tuam mother and baby site

Planners reject another housing development on site of former mother and baby home

Planners reject another housing development on site of former mother and baby home

Over €66m issued to mother and baby home survivors

Over €66m issued to mother and baby home survivors

Pre-excavation work to begin at former mother and baby home in Tuam

Pre-excavation work to begin at former mother and baby home in Tuam

Wed, 11 Jun, 2025

Families with relatives who were in the Co Galway institution have been informed of the timeline of work.

Son reunited with mother and baby home survivor ‘desperate’ to buy her home

Son reunited with mother and baby home survivor ‘desperate’ to buy her home

Thu, 17 Apr, 2025

Patrick Naughton, 70, was reunited with his birth mother Christina ‘Chrissie’ Tully in 2013.