Oppressive and misogynistic, the institutions -- which operated nationwide, some not closing until as recently as 1998 -- ...

THE newly expanded Western Alzheimers Marian House in Ballindine, will be officially opened on Friday next, July 18, at 3pm.

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

Children’s Health Ireland has unreservedly apologised for a delay in diagnosing childhood liver cancer in a little girl, who ...

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has unreservedly apologised for a delay in diagnosing childhood liver cancer in a girl who ...

- This June 4, 2014 file photo shows the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, in Tuam ...

Ireland began excavating remains of up to 800 infants buried for decades in a septic tank behind a home for unwed mothers – one of the so-called "Magdalene Laundries." ...

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Babies discarded in a septic tank by Catholic priests and nuns 80 years ago will finally receive a dignified burial. Hundreds ...

Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...

An excavation began today in Tuam, Ireland, for the remains of nearly 800 infants buried in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of a home for unwed mothers. Irish historian Catherine Corless ...