Works to forensically excavate the site of the former Mother and Baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, will start on Monday, June 16, the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, ...

Work is under way to seal off part of the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. It comes ahead of the start of an excavation of the site, which is expected to begin in mid July.

On Monday, preparatory works began at the former site of the mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway in advance of the long-awaited excavation to identify the remains of nearly 800 infants.

Pre-excavation works at the site of the former Mother and Baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, began today, Monday, June 16. The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam (ODAIT), is ...

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Preliminary works are under way to enable the excavation of the remains of almost 800 infants at the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. The initial works on the long ...

Catherine Corless, whose research first drew attention to burial practices at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, says the announcement about the impending excavation of the site is wonderful news.

The long-promised excavation of the Tuam 'pit', where it is thought the remains of nearly 800 infants were dumped, is to take place this month. Alison O'Reilly talks to families about what they ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam in Co Galway has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes ahead of the full-scale ...

Catherine Corless said she is “so relieved” the long-awaited excavation of the Tuam babies site in Co Galway will begin on Monday, but never thought the process would take this long.

But at the same time, Laura said, the excavation in Tuam must be the start, not the end, of this type of work to uncover the extent of the atrocities at similar institutions around the country.

In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one ...