While the withholding of records from affected people has been a longstanding concern, we have recently identified a different form of omission affecting some applications made under the Birth Informa...

For over 80 years, a Magdalene laundry operated on Crofton Road in Dún Laoghaire—one of ten in the Irish Free Statevand the least documented of them all. No reg...

WE NEED YOUR HELP 878 mothers and babies remain missing at Bessborough. We must force the Government to step in before developers build over this land. Despite the Commission of Investigation confirmi...

Speaking publicly for the first time, Mr Mulcahy said he and his friend saw “three or possibly more” small corpses, in a state of decay, in a ...

As Bessborough was investigated, the nuns were told don’t co-operate, writes Conall Ó Fatharta

Therese Meyer says she witnessed a baby's burial in the grounds of the institution as An Coimisiún Pleanála upheld permission for a major housing ...

9 July 2026 We are horrified that An Coimisiún Pleanála has now granted planning permission for a private apartment development at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Bessborough, even t…

Writer, academic and activist, Katherine O’Donnell will return to Cork this month where she will be taking part in a panel discussion at the West ...

YouTube video by Carmel Cantwell

On Tuesday, May 12, AOH National President Sean Pender met with Carmel Cantwell at the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home site, where he heard firsthand about the pain still carried by families connecte...

Of 923 children, burial records exist for only 64, meaning the final resting place of 859 children is unknown

New census analysis highlights deaths, missing children, and lived experiences at Bessborough as redevelopment plans reignite public attention

There is also no time to waste in pursuing the effective investigations into deaths and disappearances that should have happened many decades ago, and that families are still requesting

Save Bessboro - the former Mother & Baby ‘home’/Institution in Cork from being developed.

Human rights academics have written to An Coimisiún Pleanála expressing their objection to the construction of a large-scale residential development on the site of the Bessborough Mother and Baby inst...

ABOUT THE MAGDALENE NAMES PROJECT The Magdalene Names Project (MNP) is a JFM Research initiative which was established in 2003 in the context of the exhumations at High Park Magdalene Laundry. The …

Landmark ruling as High Court judge directs children's minister to consider adding two homes to scheme