There was a visit to Sligo in 1936 from a Senior Inspector in the Department of Local Government and Public Health (DLGPH) with the intention of looking at the possibility of setting up a mother and baby home in the county, the report of the Commission of Investigation into mother and baby homes, has found.
It said there is evidence that the department was keen to see the establishment of an additional mother and baby home. In 1936 the council of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts noted that the Local Government Board of Health Dublin [sic] are anxious another house will be established in or around Sligo . The congregation secured the approval of the Bishop of Elphin, Edward Doorly, and a superior was appointed for the proposed Sligo home.
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.
AN ARCHAEOLOGIST who discovered a mass grave containing the remains of 429 children in a Belfast bogland has called for a commission to investigate mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.
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As public health officials scramble to clear a backlog of unused COVID-19 vaccine by opening the process to anyone 65 or older, new data show they failed to quickly deliver shots to the vast majority of California’s most vulnerable residents, who were supposed to be the priority.
As of Sunday, only about 5% of long-term care facility residents in the statewide vaccination program including people in skilled nursing homes and assisted living centers had been vaccinated, according to California Department of Public Health data obtained by The Times.
And while the vaccines became available in the U.S. in mid-December, only 3% of California facilities in the program had been scheduled for their first visit from a vaccination team as of Sunday, the data show.
A Tralee woman, who’s a survivor of a mother and baby home, has called for all institutional lands to be fully investigated for unmarked burials before any land is rezoned, sold or developed. Catherine Coffey O’Brien went to Nazareth House orphanage and industrial school in Tralee which was run by the Mercy Order. She was […]