As a forensic team prepares to open the grounds of the former Tuam mother and baby home next week, archaeologist Toni Maguire ...

The memorial garden in Tuam looks peaceful from the street, with neat grass and quiet housing that suggests nothing of the tragedy beneath. Yet this week, workers began sealing off the site where ...

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.

Works to forensically excavate the site of the former Mother and Baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, will start on Monday, June 16, ... including the Memorial Garden, ...

The remains of 802 children, from newborns to three-year-olds, were buried in the County Galway town of Tuam from 1925 to 1961, a government-commissioned investigation into the network of Catholic ...

Tuam grave exhumation: ... All entrances into the playground, car park, and memorial garden are now blocked off with large black hoarding, ...

Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the exhumation of the babies’ remains at Tuam, ... adding that the memorial garden at the site will be under forensic control and closed to the public from Monday.

Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the exhumation of the babies’ remains at Tuam, ... adding that the memorial garden at the site will be under forensic control and closed to the public from Monday.

Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the exhumation of the babies’ remains at Tuam, ... adding that the memorial garden at the site will be under forensic control and closed to the public from Monday.

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 ...

The home in Tuam was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961. ... adding that the memorial garden at the site will be under forensic control and closed to the public from Monday.

Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the exhumation of the babies’ remains at Tuam, said that survivors and family members will have an opportunity to view the works in coming weeks.