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

“From the start of works on 16th June, the entire site, including the Memorial Garden, will be accessible only to staff carrying out the works and 24-hour security monitoring will be in place ...

Site of mother and baby home has now been sealed off and will remain closed for at least two years ...

Since early this morning, access to a memorial garden and adjacent playground in the centre of the Dublin Road estate in Tuam has been restricted. The site has been cordoned off for the duration ...

Work to allow for the excavation of a burial ground at the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, will begin next Monday.

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.

Exhumation has began to identify the bodies of 796 babies and children buried in a disused sewage tank at a Catholic mother and baby institution in Co Galway. | ITV National News ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam will start on Monday. Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam (ODAIT ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The sisters who ran the Tuam home had offered a “profound apology ... complex excavation," he said in a statement, adding that the memorial garden at the ...

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 names of the children in Tuam were discovered by local historian Catherine Corless, who was researching the home and the tiny children’s memorial garden, to which locals paid respect by ...