Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes

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A graveyard with rows of black crosses. There are also larger statues and stone crosses throughout.

Poster with details of Bessboro Vigil, Sunday 8th March at 1pm
The text reads as follows:
The Bessboro Mother & Baby 'home' Support Group are protesting against the development of 140 apartments at Bessborough which has been granted permission by Cork City Council Planning.

If this development goes ahead, it will set a precedent and is likely to lead to further larger developments in the grounds of Bessborough getting planning permission also, which will change the landscape of the whole area.
923 children born in Bessboro died and the burial places of
859 of them are not recorded, but the majority are likely to be buried on the grounds
The remaining undeveloped 60 acres of the Bessborough estate should be preserved as a National Site of Conscience to remember and honour all those that died, as well as the 18,706 women and children that were incarcerated here.
They were forgotten for so long!
In addition to being a place of remembrance, the 60 acre site would be an invaluable amenity for the local community.
We will be appealing the planning decision.

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Screenshot of annual report showing the scheme's purported 'values':

Kindness and service excellence
Respect and inclusivity
Equality & human rights
Integrity & commitment

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If I could contest it, I would happily do that’ – former minister Mary Hanafin ‘in the mix’ for Fianna Fáil presidential election nomination

A process will be finalised to allow survivors and affected persons to share their lived experience – and/or physical items - with the National Museum, if they wish to do so.
A programme will be designed to capture and gather survivor’s personal statements or records as part of the institutional records of the National Archives or to deposit them as private papers.

The Steering Group – which is responsible for developing the overall vision of the Centre - will be expanded to include four survivor representatives. These representatives will be full members of the Steering Group, alongside the Special Advocate for Survivors and members from Government departments and agencies. An open call for expressions of interest to join the Steering Group will be issued shortly.
The National Museum will establish dedicated panels of survivors and affected persons, to inform the development of the museum element of the National Centre.
There will be a central role for survivors in the governance of the National Centre, once it opens.

Extract from Company Registration application for Ruhama

Page 1 of letter from Masseys Undertakers to Eugene F. Collins, solicitors for the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity.

To exhume the said bodies from High Park, have them cremated and reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery for the sum of £ 30,000.

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The charge for supplying coffins is £ 7,750. These will number 133
approximately (@ £52.63 each) and will, where necessary, be of sufficient dimensions to accommodate disinterred damaged coffins within them. The coffins will be simple with no embellishments and suitable for cremation .

Screenshot of my old Twitter post from 2023 which reads as follows:

Apart from the myriad obvious concerns it’s instructive to note that there are ‘negotiations’.

Affected people—the injured parties in this process—have been afforded no such luxury with the legislation Minister @rodericogorman has been rushing through at breakneck speed.

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Some adoptees have bravely ventured on the rocky road of discovery to trace their lineage. While many have enjoyed joyful reunions, others faced the harsh reality of cold rejection by biological parents unwilling to recognise the legacies of the past. Meanwhile, graveside plots have greeted others where their story abruptly ends.

A screenshot of a letter from the redress scheme which comes from the 'Chief Deciding Officer' but there is neither a name nor a signature

A yellow question mark surrounded by lots of grey question marks

Screenshot of donation acknowledgment from Teni