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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Located within the Dublin Road estate in Tuam, the entire site, including the Memorial Garden, is under forensic control and will be closed to the public for the duration of the works. A 2.4-metre ...

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.

Daniel MacSweeney from ODAIT said from the start of works on Monday "the entire site, including the memorial garden, would only be accessible to staff carrying out the works.

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.

Mr MacSweeney said: “From the start of works on June 16, the entire site, including the memorial garden, will be accessible only to staff carrying out the works and 24-hour security monitoring ...

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 ...

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 ...