Preliminary works to enable the excavation of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, are under way.

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, 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.

Work begins to excavate burial site of babies at Tuam mother and baby home The plan to recover the children's remains in the former Bons Secours home for mostly unmarried mothers in Tuam comes ...

Tuam Babies dig to commence in coming weeks after delays with DNA identification process The long-awaited dig is being overseen by Mr Daniel McSweeney, the Director of Authorised Intervention ...

Brother Alois Loeser has chosen an Anglican, Brother Matthew (Andrew) Thorpe, 58, to be the ecumenical Christian fraternity’s third-ever prior.

Hundreds of small bodies were buried under a playground at a home for unwed mothers, many in a disused sewage system. Years after Ireland acknowledged the tragic discovery, a resolution is finally ...

A NEW art installation in memory of the 796 Tuam babies is to be unveiled this weekend at a non-religious service.

The local historian whose personal research helped uncover the Tuam babies scandal has said a new law to exhume the mass grave was a "healing moment".

CJ Capen, director of music at the St. John Neumann Church in Reston, plays piano with other musicians on flute, violin and harp at a recent Taizé service. COURTESY | FRANK SASINOWSKI ...

The excavation of the Tuam mass grave containing the remains of hundreds of children and infants will begin in the second half of the new year.