The two-year forensic dig, led by an 18-member international team, will probe the disused septic tank where the Bon Secours order is believed to have buried the children between 1925 and 1961. Days ...

Ireland to Begin Excavation of Mass Grave at Church-Run Mother and Baby Home By Clodagh Kilcoyne TUAM, Ireland (Reuters) -A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin ...

Tuam (Ireland) (AFP) – A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland's "mother and baby" home scandal. Beneath the ...

The remains of children buried in a mass unmarked grave in Tuam, County Galway, could be exhumed later this year under newly-published legislation. Hundreds of children died from various causes in the ...

More than 175 people in Ireland and abroad have come forward to inquire about providing samples to help identify babies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handwritten note is painted on the site of a mass grave of up to 800 children on the site of the former St Mary's ...

Families of children who might be buried at the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway can “see the light at the end of a very long tunnel” in advance of the site being excavated next ...

INVESTIGATORS have been urged to treat the Tuam baby scandal as a “criminal investigation”, it has emerged. The project started 11 years after historian Catherine Corless established there were no ...

Catherine Corless was instrumental in exposing the story of secret burials at the Tuam mother and baby home The local historian whose personal research helped uncover the Tuam babies scandal has said ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Irish Government on Tuesday gave its backing to a ...

THUGS who instigated the Tuam cemetery brawl during a funeral have been blasted as “disgusting” after the twisted yobs used wooden crosses on graves as weapons. Seven people have been treated in ...