Tributes are being paid to a teenager with a ‘heart of gold’ who died following a crash at the weekend. Samantha Gannon, 19, ...

Nearly 800 infants may have died in maternity home run on behalf of government by Sisters of Bon Secours from 1925 to 1961 ...

A team of archaeologists, anthropologists, and forensic scientists have begun excavating an old septic tank this week at the ...

"In stories published June 3 and June 8 about young children buried in unmarked graves after dying at a former Irish ...

Research in 2014 by local historian, Catherine Corless, found that there were no burial records for the infants and toddlers.

Ireland began excavating remains of up to 800 infants buried for decades in a septic tank behind a home for unwed mothers – one of the so-called "Magdalene Laundries." ...

Babies discarded in a septic tank by Catholic priests and nuns 80 years ago will finally receive a dignified burial. Hundreds ...

Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...

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

An excavation began today in Tuam, Ireland, for the remains of nearly 800 infants buried in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of a home for unwed mothers. Irish historian Catherine Corless ...

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

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...