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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In a small town in the west of Ireland, a dark chapter of history is being unearthed as forensic archaeologists begin the ...