A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland’s “mother and baby” home scandal.

The entire site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway, is under forensic control as pre-excavation works ...

Preparatory work has begun prior to the exhumation of 796 infant bodies interred close to a mother and baby home run by nuns ...

In recent years, the name of Tuam has become synonymous with an Ireland of the past - a place which treated children born outside of marriage, and the women who gave birth to them, as problems that ...

A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland’s “mother and baby” home scandal.

The site of the former Tuam mother and baby home has now been sealed off to members of the public and will remain closed for at least two years for the first ever mass grave exhumation in Ireland.

The process of excavating children’s unmarked burials at the site of a former mother and baby home started in Tuam on Monday.

A long-awaited forensic excavation at a former 'mother and baby home', where the remains of almost 800 babies and children ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes before the full-scale ...

Research indicates that almost 800 babies were buried in a sewerage system at the St Mary’s home in Tuam, Co Galway between ...

Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies ...