News
Irish Examiner – 27 November 2024
Work begins to excavate burial site of babies at Tuam mother and baby home
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41525315.html
RTE News – 26 November 2024
Initial surveys under way at Mother and Baby Home in Tuam
https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2024/1126/1483155-initial-surveys-underway-at-mother-and-baby-home-in-tuam/
Connaught Tribune – 03 October 2024
Tuam excavation to commence in spring – Connacht Tribune – Galway City Tribune
https://connachttribune.ie/tuam-excavation-to-commence-in-spring-787
Irish Mirror – 16 September 2024
Forensic geneticist to be hired in bid to identify excavated remains of 796 babies in Tuam
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/forensic-geneticist-hired-bid-identify-33679795
RTE News – 16 September 2024
Tuam Mother-and-Baby Home survivors hopeful search for justice nearing end
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0915/1469990-tuam-mother-and-baby-home
Extra.ie – 14 July 2024
Experts say Tuam dig in need of bigger DNA database amid ‘baffling’ exclusion
https://extra.ie/2024/07/14/news/tuam-dna-database
Irish Independent – 09 July 2024
‘The reality is some families don’t want to come forward’ – just six DNA samples collected to identify almost 800 children at Tuam mother and baby home
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-reality-is-some-families-dont-want-to-come-forward-just-six-dna-samples-collected-to-identify-almost-800-children-at-tuam-mother-and-baby-home/a1220682822.html
GalwayBeo – 02 July 2024
Tuam mother and baby site date set for ‘full excavation’ as woman behind discovery ‘made it all possible’
https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/galway-news/tuam-mother-baby-site-date-9382325
Irish Examiner – 01 July 2024
Families of Tuam babies welcome plan for exhumation at mother and baby home
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41427109.html
Irish Examiner – 28 June 2024
Exhumation of babies at Tuam mother and baby home to begin in February 2025
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41425606.html
Tuam Herald – 28 June 2024
Excavation of Mother and Baby site may begin in New Year
https://www.tuamherald.ie/2024/06/28/excavation-of-mother-and-baby-site-may-begin-in-new-year/
Irish Times – 22 April 2024
https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2024/04/22/mother-and-baby-home-investigation-to-include-dna-profiling-using-genetic-material-from-maternal-line
Connacht Tribune – 26 March 2024
Forensic approach to helping Tuam Mother and Baby Home families reach closure
https://connachttribune.ie/forensic-approach-to-helping-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-families-reach-closure
Podcasts/Radio
Midwest Radio – 27 November 2024
Preliminary works on the Tuam Mother and Babies site will be finished in the coming weeks
https://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/81078-preliminary-works-on-the-tuam-mother-and-babies-site-will-be-finished-in-the-coming-weeks
Galway Bay FM – 26 November 2024
Preliminary works now underway at Tuam Mother and Baby Home site ahead of full excavation
https://www.galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/preliminary-works-now-underway-at-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-site-ahead-of-full-excavation-182728
BBC Radio 4
Woman’s Hour – The Tuam babies scandal: A Woman’s Hour special – BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023g60
RTE Radio 1
Tuam Babies – Ten Years On
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22371575\