British pharma giant called on to compensate mother and baby home survivors for vaccine trials
GlaxoSmithKline cooperated with the Mother and Baby Home Commission and gave documentation which showed they engaged in vaccine trials. Richard O Donoghue: “I think they have a moral obligation to make a contribution and a significant one at that. File photo: Brendan Gleeson
Thu, 21 Jan, 2021 - 18:37
Ryan O’Rourke
A Limerick TD has called on a British multinational pharmaceutical giant to pay €500 million towards the victims of the mother and baby homes.
GlaxoSmithKline cooperated with the investigation of the Mother and Baby Home Commission and gave documentation which showed they engaged in vaccine trials between 1934 and 1973.
Mother and baby homes scandal a shameful betrayal of trust
Church and State must offer profound apologies to all women and children who passed through Ireland s mother and baby homes, to their families and to the people of the country, says Archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell A poem on the wall of a grotto on an unmarked mass grave at the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home run by the Bon Secours sisters. In a statement last week they said they had failed to protect the inherent dignity of women and children in the home, and offered their profound apologies . Picture by Niall Carson/PA Wire
Kathleen McGuire: A man’s lifelong search for his Derry mother
‘My mother was punished and ostracised for the crime of having sex’
Kathleen McGuire and son Mark McCollum
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“My mother Kathleen was a wee Derry woman. For my entire life the Catholic Church and the authorities hid her identity from me; when I finally found out who she was last year it was too late, she’d already died.”
Mark McCollum’s mother, Kathleen McGuire, grew up in the Bogside in the 1960s.
She fell pregnant following a relationship with a Donegal man who served in the British Army at Ebrington Barracks.
Colette Sheridan: Abusive nuns and complicit State coldly wrecked so many lives
Young women today have no idea what life was like in Ireland as recently as the 1970s, so says Colette Sheridan in her weekly column
Flowers left at the gates of Bessborough Mother and Child Home in Cork after the report on activities in the homes was published.
Colette Sheridan
IN town last Wednesday, with half an hour to kill while my new phone was being synched up, I decided to pop into St Peter and Paul’s Church to light a candle for my late parents.
Although not religious, I’ve taken to calling into churches for this purpose. And besides, Cork city is a ghost town these days with most retail outlets shut. So, with no opportunity to browse through rails of clothes, I was taking the spiritual route.