Longford County Council issues apology for sheer heartbreak Longford mothers went through at hands of Mother and Baby Homes They deserved better than this
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Longford County Council has issued an apology for the involvement of a former council in the cold and callous treatment of Longford women in Mother and Baby Homes.
Speaking at a meeting of Longford County Council this afternoon, Cathaoirleach, Cllr Paul Ross stated: Following the publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin issued a formal apology on behalf of the State to former residents of the Mother and Baby Home institutions.
Louth Senator ‘disappointed’ at Mother and Baby Homes Report Chair s decision to decline Oireachtas invite
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Fianna Fáil Senator and Seanad Spokesperson on Children Erin McGreehan has expressed her disappointment that the Chair of the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes Report has declined to appear before the Oireachtas Children’s Committee.
Senator McGreehan commented: “It is disappointing that Judge Yvonne Murphy will not come before us. I thought it would have been a positive opportunity to discuss the report and ask questions as to the methodology, the phraseology of certain comments and the seemingly contradictory comments in the executive summary.
Children s Minister Roderic OâGorman warns on plans to build on former Mother and Baby Home
The Green Party TD has warned against disturbing the childrenâs burial ground at Bessborough, Cork, where 900 infants are believed to be interred in unmarked graves
09:30, 31 JAN 2021
An ageing memorial at the Bessborough Mother and Child Home Cemetary in Cork (Image: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision)
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Mother and Baby Homes: Kildare official warned of turning unmarried mothers into social outcasts more than 80 years ago
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A senior Kildare health official sounded a warning about how unmarried mothers were being treated over 80 years ago.
The information is contained in the 3,000 page report of the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes published last week.
In a paper presented to Muintir na Tíre Rural Week in 1939, the assistant county medical officer of health for Kildare, who was a woman, argued that it is “highly desirable that unmarried mothers, some of whom are often of weak mentality, should not become the outcasts of society and add further to the difficulties of the situation.”
Sir - In her article last week, Senator Frances Black demands a referendum on Irish unity in accordance with the requirements of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 - but fails to address its possible consequences.
As I understand it, that agreement recognised the complexities of conflicting nationalist and unionist loyalties and rights in Northern Ireland and replaced the unionist majority abuse of the nationalist minority with a power-sharing arrangement - because that majority abuse had led to an unsuccessful 25 years of revolt that cost 3,500 lives.
In other words, a simplistic, rigid interpretation of democracy (that a majority can do whatever it wishes, regardless of the minority) was replaced with a more flexible interpretation.