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My Name Is Bridget @NameBridget

“My Name Is Bridget” is a book about the Tuam home. Available @ all good bookshops, Gill.ie, Amazon, The Book Centre & Book Depository, best for outside Ireland

Joined February 2018
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My Name Is Bridget@NameBridget
17 Feb 2018
This is Bridget Dolan, her two children were taken away by the nuns at the Tuam mother and baby home and were never seen again because she was an "unmarried mother" #MyNamesIsBridget #tuambabies #metoo
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Unmarried Irish mothers in UK 'relieved baby was getting a good home' —  adoption report 

Adoption Authority of Ireland report marks 72 years since the Adoption Act was introduced with the aim of preventing illegal or forced adoptions

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Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
1 Jul 2024
Families of #tuambabies welcome confirmed timeline for exhumation. @APSARA1956 @tuambabiesfami1 @AnnetteMckay15 @ThomasGaravan irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…

Families of Tuam babies welcome plan for exhumation at mother and baby home

However UCC Professor Thomas Garavan, whose aunt died in the Tuam home in 1936, said he is 'cynical' about the intervention

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Breaking news #tuambabies
Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
28 Jun 2024
BREAKING: Tuam exhumation planned for February 2025 @SeanMJourno @APSARA1956 @tuambabiesfami1 @AnnetteMckay15 @ThomasGaravan #tuambabies irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
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A day of reflection, information, sadness & joy. We’ve updated our poster with Guest speakers added. #Bessboro2024 All welcome Sunday 23rd at 2pm on the grounds of Bessborough in Blackrock, Cork.
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16 Jun 2024
Facebook groups offering to arrange private adoptions and forged birth certificates irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…

Facebook groups offering to arrange private adoptions and forged birth certificates

The 'Irish Examiner' became aware of several social media pages offering 'babies for adoption' online and we engaged with several people who claimed they had children as young as two days old...

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Mother and Baby Homes: €31,000 is average redress payment made to survivors so far

Some 371 survivors have been deemed eligible for redress to date.

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The order responsible for the Tuam mother and baby home #tuambabies @tuambabiesfami1 @AnnetteMckay15 irishexaminer.com/business/c…

Bon Secours profits jump to €10.12m on falling costs and increased revenues

Revenue increases were driven by a significant increase in both inpatient and outpatient activity

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Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
6 Jun 2024
Tuam Advisory Board to visit burial site of mass grave next week irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…

Tuam mother and baby home advisory board to visit burial site next week

The meeting next week will be the fourth official gathering of the advisory board, which first met in January in Dublin, following its appointment by the Department of Children

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Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
3 Jun 2024
10 years ago today the @MailOnline picked up my story on the #tuambabies #massgrave that barely got a mention by any politician here and it made international headlines. dailymail.co.uk/news/article… @APSARA1956 @AnnetteMckay15 but the babies remain in the septic tank @ThomasGaravan

'Bodies of 800 babies' found at site of Irish home for unmarried mums

Hundreds of babies and toddler are believed to have been secretly buried in a concrete tank next to a former children's home, pictured, in Tuam, Co. Galway between 1925-1961.

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Ten years 💔
Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
1 Jun 2024
Ten years ago today I followed up our Tuam babies mass grave exclusive with the story of @APSARA1956’s missing aunt Mollie who died in Loughrea Industrial school at 13 but has no grave. I also wrote Tuam is “tip of the iceberg”. Sadly, nothing changed.
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Ten years today #tuambabies
Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
25 May 2024
Ten years today since I wrote about the mass grave of 800 babies in a septic tank in Tuam. Proud to have exposed this scandal. Ashamed that the babies remain in that shit hole. @APSARA1956 @an @AnnetteMckay15 @ThomasGaravan @Aiden_Corkery @sselroca @Donal_OKeeffe @boucherhayes
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Magdalene laundry survivor lays wreath for 36 children in previously unmarked graves

'I'm very humbled', says 85-year-old Rose McKinney, who survived the Tuam mother and baby home, at new memorial for 36 children in Carlow

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Survivors who spent more than 180 days in hospital while in an institution will have their redress reduced. irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…

Number of mother and baby home survivors will have redress compensation reduced

News from the Irish Examiner's team of reporters

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Special advocate in mother and baby redress scheme to be paid more than some survivors

The role comes as the redress scheme for mother and baby home survivors officially opened on March 20, with up to 34,000 survivors being eligible

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Mother and baby home payments scheme criticised by rights watchdog

Some victims and survivors of mother and baby homes are being "arbitrarily excluded" from the redress scheme being launched today, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The...

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The government will contribute to the cost of legal advice in the mother and baby home redress scheme #motherandbabyhomes irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…

Government will contribute to cost of legal advice for redress scheme applicants

Signing a legal waiver form means no further action can be taken in relation to a survivor’s time in a mother and baby home

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Mother and baby home redress scheme opens today
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TUAMBABIESFAMLYGROUP@tuambabiesfami1
29 Feb 2024
#tuambabies Just a quick update on what's happening at the Tuam Pit where 796 children still lie dumped. NOTHING A lot of organisation by the CEO, a Hugh task but to date nothing happening on the ground. Not one shovel, not one baby REMOVED. And still we wait. 💔
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TUAMBABIESFAMLYGROUP@tuambabiesfami1
14 Mar 2024
#tuambabies @AnnetteMckay15 @APSARA1956 @Niall_Boylan Almost a decade ago, May 2014 story broken by Alison O'Reilly @AlisonMaryORE journalist formally with the Mail on Sunday 🙏🙏💔💔💔💔
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Alison O’Reilly@AlisonMaryORE
14 Mar 2024
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-… public will soon be able to give dna samples if they believe they are a close relative of a Tuam baby

Public DNA samples to be used in identifying children buried at Tuam

News from the Irish Examiner's team of reporters

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