Today is set to be a historic day as the report into the Mother and Baby Homes is finally published. The existence of Mother and Baby Homes casts a dark shadow in our country’s history. Too often, women, girls and their children were cast off by a society which decided to exclude and shame them […]
A Kilkenny TD has urged the Government to ensure Mother and Baby Homes survivors’ physical and mental health needs are not overlooked when the report is published next week. Deputy Kathleen Funchion, who is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for children, also said suvivors must be allowed to access their original birth certs. The Kilkenny TD said […]
Kilkenny TD Kathleen Funchion has written to the Data Protection Commissioner to ask if the Government has broken Irish and European law by voting to “seal” the records of victims who suffered abuse in Mother and Baby homes. Deputy Funchion (pictured below), who is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for children, said: “I have written to the […]