Under the Institutional Burials Act, cousins can not provide DNA for identification purposes at the Tuam Mother and Baby home ...

The historian discovered that the mortal remains of 796 children and babies who died at the St Mary's mother and baby home run by the Sisters of the Bon Secours were buried in an old septic tank. Now ...

Decades after the deaths of hundreds of babies at a religious institution in Tuam, Ireland begins the painstaking excavation of a mass grave long shrouded in silence.

The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense ...

THE excavation on the grounds of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home began on Monday, 100 years after it was first established in Co Galway. A team of Irish and international forensic experts are taking ...

"In stories published June 3 and June 8 about young children buried in unmarked graves after dying at a former Irish orphanage for the children of unwed mothers, The Associated Press incorrectly ...

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 children are believed to be buried.

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Excavations begin today of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds ...