In recent years, the name of Tuam has become synonymous with an Ireland of the past - a place which treated children born ...

“Many of the infant remains are feared to have been dumped in the cesspool known as ‘the pit’ at the former institution,” Corless told Sky News. She added, “I’m feeling very relieved. It’s been a long ...

An amateur historian posited children had been buried in "a sewage tank." A government commission investigated her claims.

Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried ...

Officials in Ireland are starting work to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies ...

Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead ...

Over a decade since a historian discovered an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in ...

Preliminary works to enable the excavation of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, are under way.

After a decade of research and public ridicule, historian Catherine Corless has been vindicated as excavation begins at the ...

Preliminary works are under way to enable the excavation of the remains of almost 800 infants at the site of the former ...

A 2021 report found 9000 children died in Ireland's mother-and-baby homes.

Catherine Corless, the historian who found the gravesite of nearly 800 babies and children beneath an Irish home for unwed ...