Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

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

For decades, 796 babies who died at a church-run home in Tuam, Ireland, lay in an unmarked grave — many possibly discarded in ...

When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...

Mother-and-baby homes' were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were characterised by harsh conditions, high mortality rates and a lack of ...

Team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts begins excavating to identify remains of about 800 children.

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

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 ...

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." ...

The instituition housed women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and been shunned by their families. Read more at ...

Forensic experts in Ireland have begun a landmark excavation at the grounds of the former St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in ...

Excavations begin today of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...